Newton Alchemy Quotes

#1. What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Jean Paul

#2. The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.

Oswald Chambers

#3. Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Cory Doctorow

#5. They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

Isaac Newton

#6. Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

John O'Donohue

#7. Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

Fritz Leiber

#8. Think personally, act communally.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.

C.S. Lewis

#10. You had to be ready for the sea because, if not, then the sea would be ready for you.

Lane Ashfeldt

#11. Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

Clive Sinclair

#12. The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

Emma Goldman