There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
“She pushed the book towards them, and Harry and Ron read: The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“Friedrich spoke thickly. "Don't you think, Mr. Kingscourt, that people would be better if they were better off? "No! If I believed… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many times I chuck Philosopher's stone into the fireplace, another copy appears on the shelf like literary herpes” — Juno Dawson Copy Share Image
“I knew it! I knew it! ” “Are we allowed to speak yet?” said Ron grumpily. Hermione ignored him. “Nicolas Flamel,” she… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
