Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
The main reason for healing is love.
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.