Top 80 Paracelsus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

— Paracelsus

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2. “The dose makes the poison.”

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3. “I am different. Let this not upset you.”

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4. “All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature; the challenge of science is to find it.”

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5. “Fasting is the greatest remedy – the physician within.”

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6. “Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”

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7. “All drugs are poisons; the benefit depends on the dosage.”

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8. “The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”

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9. “The highest degree of a medicine is Love.”

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10. “The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.”

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11. “All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”

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12. “The main reason for healing is love.”

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13. “All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.”

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14. “The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.”

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15. “Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.”

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16. “Man is ill because he is never still.”

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17. “In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.”

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18. “Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.”

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19. “The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.”

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20. “Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.”

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21. “Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”

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22. “Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”

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23. “It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.”

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24. “Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.”

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25. “Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.”

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26. “Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature will become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her in her inner light.”

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27. “The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.”

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28. “The interpretation of dreams is a great art.”

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29. “Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.”

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30. “Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.”

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31. “He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees... The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love... Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”

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32. “Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”

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33. “Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.”

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34. “Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.”

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35. “A little bit of beer is divine medicine.”

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36. “All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.”

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37. “Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”

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38. “The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.”

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39. “All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.”

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40. “The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.”

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41. “Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.”

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42. “Be not another, if you can be yourself.”

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43. “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.”

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44. “It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.”

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45. “Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”

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46. “There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.”

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47. “Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.”

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48. “The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.”

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49. “Death is the midwife of very great things... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.”

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50. “For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.”

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