Paracelsus Quotes on Virtue
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 virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Paracelsus:
“Nature is the great teacher; the physician is her translator.”
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Attributed to Paracelsus:
“He who would heal must first know himself.”
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Attributed to Paracelsus:
“Medicine is not only science but also wisdom and love.”
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Attributed to Paracelsus:
“What the eye sees not and the heart loves not, the head will not labor for.”
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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