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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)

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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Paracelsus)

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. (Quote by - Katheine Neville)

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. (Quote by - Paracelsus)

It is alchemy in reverse: the golden rule has turned to dross in his hands. (Quote by - Oliver Letwin)

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. (Quote by - Mevlana Rumi)

The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

If we truly want to create a life that is grounded in basic well-being, we must decide to commit ourselves to learning what it takes to thrive instead of merely survive. (Quote by - Susan Velasquez)

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work. (Quote by - Clark Wolf)

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)

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. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard )

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God. (Quote by - Mevlana Rumi)

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. (Quote by - Paracelsus)

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. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)

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. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)

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. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)

Literature, at its best, and despite the recent attempts of critics, can never be murdered and dissected, as i s an immortal yet organic thing, drawing on the richness and complexity of Experience yet somehow managing to transcend its mundane origins like an alchemist transmuting base metals. (Quote by - Sol Luckman )

If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold. (Quote by - John Milton)

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. (Quote by - William Temple)

You are an alchemist; make gold of that. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. (Quote by - Paracelsus)

Before you leave this planet, change just one person's mind...Guess whose? (Quote by - elves alien)

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. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jun s collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)

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