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 ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
The main reason for healing is love.
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.
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.
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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.
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.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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?