"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural……" — William Temple
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
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27 Quotes by William Temple
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for…
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
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Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;…
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a…
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The greatest pleasure in life is love.
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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about…
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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
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The greatest medicine is a true friend.
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There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth…
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The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what…
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More Alchemy Quotes
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
— Thomas Szasz
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
— Rajneesh
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
— David Morrell
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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