Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine.… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“Stories have a way of running off the page and taking on lives of their own, if we let them. Perhaps the… — NZ Kaminsky Copy Share Image
The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning… — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Humankind Cannot Gain Anything Without First Giving Something In Return. To obtain, Something Of Equal Value Must Be Lost. That Is Alchemy's… — Edward Elric Copy Share Image
I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it's real alchemy. It's a really interesting science, and I… — Boy George 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
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
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
“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
“If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon,… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“An alchemist cannot develop an elixir of life, but walking in nature can do! Youth and longevity are the two magics hidden… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If the ways of this world are based on equivalent exchange, as alchemy says, then in order to allow for a new… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
“You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I often have to feel my way through the alternatives. The 99-cent store is attractive because it offers objects that aren't promoted… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People always ask me, "Oh, do you ever want to start your own thing?" And I don't, actually. I think what I… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Leadership is an alchemy that combines your human skills with your professional capacities in order to use your full potential and to… — Neculai Fantanaru Copy Share Image
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“the outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
Supermarkets and specialist suppliers will have you believe there are great substitutes for cheese. There are not. No vegan cheese tastes anything… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Alan Jay Lerner needed a hit. The Broadway lyricist and librettist was a decade removed from his greatest successes when his partnership… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
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