Paracelsus

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

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

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

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

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?

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.

Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.

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

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

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.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

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