Philippus Aureolus Theophrastu Paracelsus citáty

„Medicína stojí na čtyřech pilířích: filozofii, astronomii, alchymii a etice.“

„Mnozí si myslí, že alchymie slouží jen pro výrobu zlata a stříbra. Pro mě to není cílem, její ctnost a síla spočívá v lékařství.“

„Do dvaceti jez, kolik můžeš, do padesáti, kolik musíš, a po padesátce tak málo, jak jen můžeš.“

„Pro léčení nestačí rozřezat tělo jako když sedlák zkoumá žaltář.“

„Kdybych se byl sám neobrátil ke zkušenosti, staří lékaři by mne byli ponechali ve slepotě, nevidomého.“

„Lékař musí k nemoci, jako kráva k jeslím.“

„Vykládat sny je velké umění.“

„Všechny látky jsou jedy; není žádný, který není jedem. Správné dávkování rozlišuje jed a lék.“

“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?”

“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”

“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.”

“He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.”

“God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.”