Alchemy Quotes
106 Alchemy quotes by 93 unique authors
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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
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a…
— Muriel Barbery
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Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
— Glen Hirshberg
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This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
— Mark Buchanan
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The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.
— Sam Keen
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One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much…
— Scott Simon
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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this…
— Carl Jung
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Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate…
— Carl Jung
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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for…
— H. L. Mencken
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Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in his…
— Arnold Mindell
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The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the…
— John Fowles
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
— Paracelsus
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Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with…
— William Shakespeare
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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir…
— Sam Keen
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Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but…
— Mohsin Hamid
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It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
— Jacqueline Winspear
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Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
— Rajneesh
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As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
— Shawn Ryan
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You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that…
— Adam Gopnik
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
— Cai Guo-Qiang
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The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.
— Denise Linn
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We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the…
— Alberto Manguel
Who Wrote These Alchemy Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 106 Alchemy Quotes, led by these top contributors: