Philosopher Paracelsus Quotes & Sayings

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Let's all challenge ourselves today to get up and move a little more. — Ellen DeGeneres

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. — Robert M. Pirsig

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills. — David Tepper

The spirit is the thing I most love about my kind of geekdom. — Felicia Day

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him. — Paracelsus

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. — Craig Venter

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Life was short. We weren't promised tomorrow. Wasting what time we did have on hating others or hating the paths we were given was pointless. We should embrace it and make the best of it. — Abbi Glines

Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being. — Gregory Orr

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. — Epicurus