paracelsus

“ The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ”

“ Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new. ”

“ The main reason for healing is love. ”

“ The highest degree of medicine is love. ”

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

“ All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece. ”

“ Man is a seed and the world is his apple; and just as the seed fares in the apple, so does man fare in the world, which surrounds him. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken. ”