121 Quotes by Paracelsus

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

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

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.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

I am different. Let this not upset you

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.

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