Top 80 Paracelsus Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 2

51. “Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.”

— Paracelsus

52. “The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.”

— Paracelsus

53. “Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.”

— Paracelsus

54. “Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.”

— Paracelsus

55. “If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.”

— Paracelsus

56. “Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.”

— Paracelsus

57. “As you talk, so is your heart.”

— Paracelsus

58. “It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.”

— Paracelsus

59. “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.”

— Paracelsus

60. “Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.”

— Paracelsus

61. “The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books.”

— Paracelsus

62. “Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.”

— Paracelsus

63. “What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”

— Paracelsus

64. “The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!”

— Paracelsus

65. “A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.”

— Paracelsus

66. “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.”

— Paracelsus

67. “What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?”

— Paracelsus

68. “For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.”

— Paracelsus

69. “Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.”

— Paracelsus

70. “However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.”

— Paracelsus

71. “Let no one who can be his own belong to another.”

— Paracelsus

72. “And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.”

— Paracelsus

73. “Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”

— Paracelsus

74. “But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?”

— Paracelsus

75. “Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”

— Paracelsus

76. “There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.”

— Paracelsus

77. “One who lives within reason lives without the spirit.”

— Paracelsus

78. “To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology, it is necessary to understand and to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.”

— Paracelsus

79. “Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery.”

— Paracelsus

80. “That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.”

— Paracelsus

81. “Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.”

— Paracelsus

82. “This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.”

— Paracelsus

83. “This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.”

— Paracelsus

84. “Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.”

— Paracelsus

85. “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison.”

— Paracelsus