Paracelsus

"All desires are lawful except those that involve harm to another."

"The secret of all power is patience."

"Man is the measure of all things divine and human."

"Every person has a spark of divinity within them."

"The physician must be acquainted with nature and her works if he would understand disease and how to treat it."

"Man has no authority from God to mutilate or deface his own body."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Diseases of the imagination require medicines of the imagination."

"A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician."

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician."

"Sleep is the best meditation."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The ultimate foundation of theology is the character of God; it is by the aid of Science that we ascertain what that character is."

"Magic is the semen of God."

"There is no illness which is not preceded by sin."

"If you wish to know anything about nature and about the material world, you must ask, study, and practice, not speculation and book learning."

"The apothecaries and physicians are much alike in their practice, and both are the human body's greatest enemies."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps."

"Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule; of them the inquisitor can have no knowledge; they precede the time of the body."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"All things are poisonous and nothing is without poison; only the dose determines whether a thing is poisonous or not."

"Experience is the only teacher."

"Whoso wishes to be a good physician must understand the stars, for the human body is ruled by them."

"The macrocosm and the microcosm are one."

"Truth is like a torch that shines in the darkness, yet few wish to behold it."

"Identity is not found in the body, but in the soul."

"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which the present world is but a finite representation."

"There are as many arts and sciences as there are things in nature to be understood."

"An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree that shakes down acorns but never looks up."

"He who possesses the truth must not refuse it to the world."