Top 100 Quotes About Alchemy
#1. It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
Terry Pratchett
#2. As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
John Ruskin
#3. Because it is a process of alchemy: it transforms a vast manifestation of spiritual energy, which is love, into a physical gesture
Paulo Coelho
#4. I'm happy I found an apartment where outside the window is the wide expanse of a roof. That feeling of the breeze, the alchemy of the cigarettes and the alcohol, those together are like a wormhole furrowed through my brain.
Rob Hart
#5. Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors ... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids ... mixed together with powdered stones to give color ... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.
James Elkins
#6. Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.
Manly Hall
#7. Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Carl Jung
#8. The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H Gass
#9. My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.
Avery Williams
#10. The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.
C. G. Jung
#11. As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
Pranab Mukherjee
#12. What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
Avram Davidson
#13. Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
#14. I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"
Sarah Paulson
#15. We have the truth still with us. But it is not found in books, to any given extent. It has been passed along......from lip to ear. When it was written down at all, its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy and astrology, so that only those possessing the key could read it aright.
Three Initiates
#16. The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass
But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint
Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
Muhammad Iqbal
#17. Fear is only the enemy if you let it keep you from moving forward.
Put fear on your side and let it motivate you.
This is the definition of an alchemist. To turn base metal into gold. Fear into Motivation.
Matthew Donnelly
#18. Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold.
Robin Sacredfire
#19. Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
Terence McKenna
#20. " ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
David Morrell
#21. I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.
Thomas Szasz
#22. The light of awakeness itself is the deepest transformative agent, and the deepest alchemy takes place in the willingness to stay conscious to our own unconsciousness.
Adyashanti
#23. Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
Laini Taylor
#24. In the Greek way of dealing with alchemy, which was earth, air, fire and water, these were the objective qualities. Within the objective qualities - things of earth, air, fire and water - are our subjective experiences of hot, cold, dry, and moist.
Fred Alan Wolf
#25. Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.
Jillian Michaels
#26. Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe.
Jim Carroll
#28. Two years away. To an Incarnate, it's nothing. But when you have people who care about you, who you're excited about, each day becomes significant.
Avery Williams
#29. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
Tina Brown
#30. Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.
Rajneesh
#31. I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
Will Smith
#32. Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.
Cesar Aira
#34. Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live
Rajneesh
#35. The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy.
Blakely Bennett
#36. Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.
George Soros
#37. Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
Terence McKenna
#38. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...
Tom Althouse
#39. The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.
Fred Alan Wolf
#40. The light needs only our trust
And, of course, the darkness
To work its eternal alchemy.
Scott Hastie
#41. Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#42. Just as instinct may fail an animal under some shift of environmental conditions, so man's cultural beliefs may prove inadequate to meet a new situation, or, on an individual level, the confused mind may substitute, by some terrible alchemy, cruelty for love. The
Loren Eiseley
#43. Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: "Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.
Brad Stone
#44. Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.
Josh: DNA.
Michael Scott
#45. Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.
Lawren Leo
#46. Alchemy is glorious, gritty, and gruesome, forcing one to mature spiritually."
-from my weblog posted today on diavirginia
Dia Virginia Rigden
#47. Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy,
C. G. Jung
#48. He was from a fantasy where fairies and pixies danced through the woods and slept in dewy beds of twigs and petals. He was a creature unlike anything poets or philosophers could conjure up. He was born from alchemy, created by twisting storm clouds and rays of sunshine together.
Nash Summers
#49. There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.
Jason Katims
#50. I nod, understanding. "You won't find any comfort in death." I promised her. "It's a void. It's nothing. You only want to die if you desire that nothingness, If you don't want to be alone, that means you're still alive. There's hope.
Avery Williams The Alchemy Of Forever
#51. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Eduardo Galeano
#52. I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.
Megan Chance
#53. I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.
Kat Duff
#54. The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life. The liar is someone who keeps losing sight of these possibilities
Adrienne Rich
#55. You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.
Jeanne Moreau
#57. School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
Chris Riddell
#58. But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?
Tarun J. Tejpal
#60. Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.
Nevada Barr
#61. In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
Floyd Skloot
#62. Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl Jung
#63. The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#64. The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life.
Robin Sacredfire
#65. To Auriel, I will give the gift of gold.
After the night of long and false captivity, the golden SUN is about to rise, and all this by the power of the Stone, lapis ex caelis; for be sure that as Auriel rises the LION shall fall.
Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat.
Elizabeth Redfern
#66. My parents would call it genetics. To me it seems like alchemy - the luminous space between science and magic.
Claudia Gray
#67. All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.
Paracelsus 1493-1541
#68. I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon.
Nikki Rowe
#69. They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
Isaac Newton
#70. 601If love is a precious resource, it is not one simply extracted from the Third World and implanted in the First; rather, it owes its very existence to a particular cultural alchemy that occurs in the land to which it is imported.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#71. By some strange alchemy of the divine, darkness was light: the Lord of the Hells was clothed in it, as if it were raiment or armor, and he shone with it.
Michelle West
#72. 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
Steven Pinker
#73. Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#74. The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
Edith Wharton
#75. Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked.
We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists.
Barry Hughart
#76. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.
Libba Bray
#77. Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds ... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.
Muriel Barbery
#78. True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
Arthur Rimbaud
#79. The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
Bill Haywood
#80. Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
Sharon Salzberg
#81. Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic ...
John Geddes
#82. So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.
Sarah Dunant
#83. The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Robert Morgan
#85. Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
Marcel Duchamp
#86. I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.
Anthony Warlow
#87. Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them - touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.
Judith Jones
#88. The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again.
The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again,
And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.
Hiromu Arakawa
#89. Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
Marcel Duchamp
#90. 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
#91. Fighting a dragon without a shield or a sword. That is what losing the one we love means.
Daniel Marques
#92. Don't expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.
Leslie Gordon Barnard
#93. Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
Christopher Hitchens
#94. There's magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that strike a chord.
A.J. Compton
#95. Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
Glen Hirshberg
#96. To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.
Li Shan
#97. The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things.
Joanne Harris
#99. This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus
