Talk:Alchemy

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• Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left the gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light.
  • Francis Bacon

• 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.

• Transmute yourselves from dead stones into living philosophical stones.
  • Gerhardt Dorn.

• Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies.
  • Jean Dubuis.

• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
  • Henry Kissinger

• The science of alchymy I like very well, and indeed, 'tis the philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the profits it brings in melting metals, in decocting, preparing, extracting and distilling herbs, roots; I like it also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the last day.
  • Martin Luther in Table Talk.

• One becomes two, two becomes three, and by means of the third and fourth achieves unity; thus two are but one.... Invert nature and you will find that what you seek... Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought...
  • Maria the Jewess (c. 300).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Scholasticism with its subtle argumentation, Theology with its ambiguous phraseology, Astrology, so vast and so complex, are all children's games when compared with alchemy.
  • Albert Poisson.

• O, he sits high in all the people's hearts;
  And that which would appear offence in us,
  His countenance, like richest alchemy,
  Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
  • William Shakespeare.

• The glorious sun
  Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
  Turning with splendor of his precious eye
  The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold.
  • William Shakespeare