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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. -- Paracelsus
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. -- Paracelsus
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. -- Hiromu Arakawa
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again. -- Georg Ernst Stahl
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. -- Henry A. Kissinger
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. -- Paracelsus
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. -- Paracelsus
You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch. -- Shawn Ryan
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. -- Paracelsus
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. -- Edith Hamilton
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Art is Alchemy. -- ELLE NICOLAI
Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter. -- Terence McKenna
The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman. -- Samael Aun Weor
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. -- Julia Cameron
There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point. -- Richelle Mead
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? -- George Meredith
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. -- Marcel Duchamp
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. -- Pearl S. Buck
I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is. -- Paulo Coelho
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything. -- Terence McKenna
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. -- Robert Morgan
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced! -- R. A. Salvatore
Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!! -- Hiromu Arakawa
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. -- Carl Jung
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls. -- Gaston Bachelard
These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around. -- Deborah Harkness
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy. -- Saul Williams
As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville. -- Bill Vaughan
If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold. -- Rajneesh
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. -- Cai Guo-Qiang
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. -- Sharon Salzberg
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is. -- Amanda Palmer
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. -- William Temple
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems. -- Steven Pinker
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age. -- Pranab Mukherjee
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. -- Erin Morgenstern
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing. -- Jerry Saltz
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. -- Jerry Saltz
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. -- Marcel Duchamp
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate. -- Alain Ducasse
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. -- Linus Torvalds
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. -- Denise Linn
Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy. -- Michael Kinsley
Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science -- Jim Morrison
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. -- Prince
I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea. -- Glen Hansard
The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs? -- Avram Davidson
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. -- Glen Hirshberg
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. -- Anais Nin
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. -- Rajneesh
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled. -- Sam Keen
The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy. -- Scott Hastie
The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy. -- Blakely Bennett
This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children. -- Mark Buchanan
" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world. -- David Morrell
The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. -- Jennifer Sodini
Who can ever hold the essence of fire?Who can ever know the alchemy of desire? -- Tarun J. Tejpal
I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share. -- Gregory Colbert
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate. -- Laini Taylor
Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit. -- Jake Ducey
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move. -- Jacqueline Winspear
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. -- Richard Dawkins
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy. -- Sarah Dunant
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality. -- Jennifer Sodini
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. -- Terence McKenna
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open. -- Rumi
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur. -- Carlton Cuse
True alchemy lies in this formula: â??Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ??. -- Arthur Rimbaud
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about. -- Fred Alan Wolf
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. -- Joanne Harris
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. -- Deepak Chopra
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. -- Christopher Hitchens
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. -- Rajneesh
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
School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works. -- Chris Riddell
To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy. -- Li Shan
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality. -- Dane Rudhyar
Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. -- Karen Armstrong
We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy. -- Andy Partridge
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself. -- James Altucher
Inspiration Unlimited is more than an e-Magazine. I would rather call it an alchemy of learning and inspiration. It really inspires many people in many ways. -- Lokendra Singh
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost. -- Edith Wharton
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain -- Muhammad Iqbal
Religion isnâ??t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. Itâ??s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. -- Karen Armstrong
Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy... -- William Shakespeare
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge. -- Manly Hall
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science. -- Thomas Szasz
What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some. -- Bob Dylan
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy -- Djuna Barnes
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy. -- George Soros
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well. -- Florence King
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! -- Bill Haywood
Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science. -- Jim Morrison
The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting. -- Jeanne Moreau
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, Â? the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy. -- Will Smith
Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching. -- Libba Bray
Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts. -- Melody Beattie
Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment -- Rajneesh
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn. -- Honore de Balzac
Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself. Josh: DNA. -- Michael Scott
Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in his clients' processes. His work is both enlightening and informative. -- Arnold Mindell
One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy -- Scott Simon
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. -- Fritz Leiber
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche. -- Carl Jung

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