Life Quote by Anthony Stevens

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was…

— Carl Jung

“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing…

— C.G. Jung

“In his blackest hours, Stone doubted the utility of all thought, and all intelligence. There were times he envied the laboratory rats he worked…

— Michael Crichton

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel.…

— Georges Clemenceau

“The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The word "stone"…

— Stephen Fry

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.…

— Oscar Wilde

“He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place…

— Hermann Hesse

“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections…

— Mark Doty

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen