Quotes and Sayings about Alchemy

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Poetry, Alchemy, Nothing, Pain, Tragedy)

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Vision, Alchemy, Leaders)

"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
(Related: Art, Poetry, 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."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Alchemy, Contempt, Now, Past)

"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
(Related: Power, Lie, Virtue, Alchemy, Gold, May)

"This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Alchemy, Medicine, Office)

"Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Alchemy, Astronomy, Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy)

"This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan."
- Paracelsus

"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."
- William Temple
(Related: Enthusiasm, Purpose, Alchemy, Divinity, Philosophy, World)