Religion Quote by Titus Lucretius Carus

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

“What alchemy there was in human beings.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Marcel Duchamp

“. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia…

— Neal Stephenson

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of…

— John Piper

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

“Ideas are good things to have even if they are old. Even to understand the most advanced theorics requires a lifetime of study. To…

— Neal Stephenson

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

“It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.”

— E. M. Cioran

“Material possession is one thing, but ideological passion disgusts us on some deep level.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about…

— Greg McKeown