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“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”

Two Gold Logic Absolutes Metals Sovereign Seventies Grapes Sects Alchemist

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”

Beats Labor Gold Patient Metals Alchemist Transmutation

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.”

Ideas Language Interest Gold Mathematics Lays West Physics Satisfied Clarity Chemistry Typical Magician Alchemist Theorems Dens Charlatans Ignoble Euclid

Author:Primo Levi

“Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.”

World Turns Causes Wonder Worry Fantasy Effects Mass Gold Impact Wave Currency Mice Conservation Elephants Cause And Effect Alchemist Wands Fantasy Worlds

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.”

Joy Fall Sea All Things Gold Green Distance Smell Tides Shells Pearls Purple Alchemist Venus Masonry

Book:John Cheever: Complete Novels

Source: John Cheever: Complete Novels

“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.”

Turns Evil Loss Economic Sorrow Blessing Disease Crosses Gold Finals Disappointment Symbols Heartache Frustration Alchemist Dregs Slag Life Disappointment

Author:Catherine Marshall

“The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.”

Life Is Turns Magic Ordinary Gold Aging Alchemist Ordinary Life

Author:Anais Nin

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Wanted Rich Kings Gold Chemistry Metals Rich People Alchemy Alchemist Trying To Change Back In Time Precursor

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.”

Used Turns Gold Mystical Alchemist Feats Chunks Chemist

Author:Will Smith

“The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.”

“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”

Science Values Greater Gold Philosophical Data Alchemist Analytics

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”

Gold Alchemy Alchemist

Book:Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

“"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."”

World Want Needs Said Play Shows Turns Boys Roles Gold Strive Treasure Former Alchemy Alchemist Former Life

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

World Writing Book Kids Gold Storytelling Changing The World Alchemist

Book:A Temple of Texts

Source: A Temple of Texts

“This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”

Giving Wells Said Might Next Listening Gold Generosity Next Time Monk Payment Pilgrim Alchemist Your Generosity

Author:Paulo Coelho

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”

Source: The Yeats companion

“Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.”

Men Book Pain Community Loss Clear Gold Folks Maps Hardship Old Man Tenderness Brilliance Mississippi Alchemist Pain And Loss

Author:Victor LaValle

“I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.”

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

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