Alchemist Quotes
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel -
You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
William Shakespeare
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The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.
Gaston Bachelard -
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H. Gass -
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Miguel de Unamuno -
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
William Butler Yeats -
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.
Gene Logsdon -
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
Ethan A. Hitchcock -
You are an alchemist who can turn six beers into an awkward three week relationship.
Eugene Mirman