"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine……" — Paracelsus

"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars."

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68 Quotes by Paracelsus

Paracelsus has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing…
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not…
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is…
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may…
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things…
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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