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.

What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.

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

If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.

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

Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.

He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.

As you talk, so is your heart.

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

Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.

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?

In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.

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

What else is the help of medicine than love?

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.

Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

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.

Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.

Thus 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.

The quotations are from the selection of Robert Blaser, from the book "Paracelsus - Arzt unserer Zeit" (Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time) by Frank Geerk (Benziger-Verlag, Zürich 1992), the last one from "Paracelsus - Collected Writings" (Aschner) Vol. I, p. 110)