Alchemy Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Half, Stones, Pebbles

  "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.

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• I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

  Glen Hansard

  Ideas, Adore, Bits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Blood, Secret, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin

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• The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Swings, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.

  Beryl Markham

  Dream, Children, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.

  Fred Melamed

  Keys, Long, Together

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Art, Book, Successful

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside of Florence. (Boccaccio was the medieval author of The Decameron.) It was as though I had met my muse! After this trip, I read The Decameron and began writing the Alchemy Series in earnest.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Inspiration, Home, Writing

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often they are about desire. And that is very different. The desire to feel special, to feel seen, to feel appreciated, to be laughed at or with. The desire to be desired. That does not manifest in a sexual act per se. Affairs make you feel alive. Alchemy means it's not about the actual sex, but the sexuality, the energy, the aura. It's the imagination and anticipation of it as much or instead of the actual experience of it.

  Esther Perel

  Mean, Imagination, Special

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Moving, Heartfelt, Mountain

  Jacqueline Winspear (2004). “Birds of a Feather”, p.167, Soho Press

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• I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples.

  Billy West

  Long, People, Cartoon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Theoretical Physics, Bird

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

  Muriel Barbery

  Clouds, Dust, Essence

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• 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

  Doubting Everything, Looks, Gorges

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

  Michael Kinsley

  Want

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• 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

  Egypt, Land, Names

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.438, Courier Corporation

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• Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

  Terence McKenna

  Stones, Tradition, Shamanism

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• There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue.
  All lived lives are a mess.
  The neatness in my life had begun to crumble some time before, but now it disintegrated completely as I vanished into a world of endlessly opening doors, teasing riddles and lives without boundaries.
  For the first time I began to understand how shallow neatness is.
  How cramping, how limiting.
  For the first time I understood neat lives are comatose lives. (the Alchemy of Desire 304)

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Men, Doors, Desire

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• 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

  Astrology, Goal, Personality

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• I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Fire, Air, Water

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Egypt, Land

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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 the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Kings, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• 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

  Gold, Injustice, Mills

  "The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.

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