“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Consider the case of alchemy: it fascinated human beings for over a thousand years, and yet anyone who seriously claims to be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“What is the alternative to religion as we know it? As it turns out, this is the wrong question to ask. Chemistry… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Within the earth’s womb each metal grows slowly developing and transforming into its perfection, its highest manifestation – gold. Nature and God… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“In order to prosper then, in whatever way we choose, we need to regain all of the energy that we were born… — John Kreiter Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
