Paracelsus Quotes

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

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

The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of certain causes, that unless our eyes are enlightened by the Spirit of God, and the spirit of revelation rests upon us, we will fail to see that these are the events predicted by the Holy Prophets.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.