Alchemist Quotes

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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion. — Kim Edwards
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about… — Victor LaValle
I hold the view that the alchemistâ€™s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only… — Carl Jung
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 a ridiculous amount… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually… — Paulo Coelho
Thanks to the central bank, most â€˜monetary expertsâ€™ and â€˜leading macro-economistsâ€™ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists â€˜explaining,â€™ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say â€˜if I put this pill in your beer it… — Cyril Connolly
This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. — Kavita Ramdas
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender… — Savielly Tartakower
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world,… — Gaston Bachelard
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to… — Kenny Smith
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. — Rumi
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. — Carl Jung
The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just… — Pharrell Williams
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.… — Paulo Coelho
When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists. — Wayne Dyer

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