Alchemy Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Marcel Duchamp

I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which…

— Fred Alan Wolf

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

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

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

“Opinions differ on the details, but most serious students today recognize that alchemy was, and is, a spiritual pursuit, and that whether or not…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed into the…

— Anthony Stevens

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…

— Carl Jung

The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its…

— Mark Rowlands

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to…

— Dom Eugene Boylan