Paracelsus Quotes

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

Yes, we too are stardust.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.