121 Quotes by Paracelsus

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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