Top 216 Alchemy Quotes & Sayings

Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman.

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

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.

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

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.

I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it, and you have the satisfaction of seeing your creation become a reality.

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.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

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.

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

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.

All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.

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.)

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.

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

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.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and your first-timer.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, ? the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

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.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

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.

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.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

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.

Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

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.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

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.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

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

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.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.