Paracelsus: Zitate auf Englisch

“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.”

“Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”

“The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.”

“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”

“Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.”

“In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.”

“Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.”

“Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.”

“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”

“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i. e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”

“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.”

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

“What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.”

“Be not another, if you can be yourself.”

“Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature… create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.”

“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”

“We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.”

“He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.”

“Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?”