Alchemy Quote by Marcel Duchamp

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind…

— Terence McKenna

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

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

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

The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as…

— Fred Alan Wolf

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

— John Ruskin

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can…

— Jillian Michaels

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

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

“Philosophy is about picking up an idea or a combination of ideas, then, like a toddler with its toys - twisting, turning, pulling, arranging,…

— Monaristw

Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content…

— Edward Gibbon