Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Paracelsus
Age: 47 †
Born: 1493
Born: November 10
Died: 1541
Died: September 24
Astrologer
Astronomer
Chemist
Naturalist
Pharmacist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Theologian
Writer
Einsiedeln SZ
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Philip von Hohenheim
Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Theophrast von Hohenheim
Would
Physicians
Origin
Cure
Cures
Discovered
Disease
Alleviate
Sense
Physician
Make
Diseases
More quotes by Paracelsus
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
Paracelsus
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
Paracelsus
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
Paracelsus
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Paracelsus
I am different. Let this not upset you
Paracelsus
The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.
Paracelsus
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
Paracelsus
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
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
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
Paracelsus
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.
Paracelsus
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
Everything is a drug it depends on the dose.
Paracelsus
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.
Paracelsus
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
Paracelsus
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
Paracelsus
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
Paracelsus
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
Paracelsus
