"When alchemists were talking about turning lead to……" — Alan Moore
"When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be."
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253 Quotes by Alan Moore
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a…
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If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see…
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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly…
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You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that,…
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The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind
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On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I…
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It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a…
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It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what…
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's…
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I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is…
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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it.…
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.…
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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close…
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Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this…
— Cyril Connolly
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This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into…
— Kavita Ramdas
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Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth…
— Kenny Smith
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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by?…
— Rumi
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When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.
— Wayne Dyer
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King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the…
— Bruce Dickinson
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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