All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

— Paracelsus

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

— Paracelsus

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

— Paracelsus

Dreams are not without meaning wherever that may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

— Paracelsus

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

— Paracelsus

For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore, it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our

— Paracelsus

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

— Paracelsus

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

— 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

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.

— Paracelsus