Alchemist Quotes

81 Alchemist quotes by 41 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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 alchemist’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 ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘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. — Unknown Author
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
We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist. — Samael Aun Weor
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… — Gaston Bachelard
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a… — Bruce Dickinson
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the… — George Jean Nathan
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno

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