Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
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