Paracelsus Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“All things are poison; the dose alone makes the poison.”
The Third Defense -
Attributed to Paracelsus:
“Nature is the great teacher; the physician is her translator.”
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“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.”
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings (1894), edited by Arthur Edward Waite; Coelum Philosophorum or Book of Vexations , originally 1543 -
“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