Alchemy Quote by Herbert Butterfield

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such…

— Paracelsus

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

— Marcel Duchamp

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the…

— William Temple

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on…

— Carl Jung

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure…

— Ian Hacking

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the…

— George Saunders

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original.…

— Daniel B. Wallace