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Paracelsus Quotes on God

Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who took the Latinized name Paracelsus, was a Swiss-German physician, alchemist, and natural philosopher and one of the principal figures in the early-modern revolt against Galenic medicine. This page collects quotes attributed to Paracelsus on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • “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.”

    Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110
  • “God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.”

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

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

    Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992)
  • “Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.”

    Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992)
  • “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.”

    Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992)
  • “In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.”

    Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992)