100 Alchemist Quotes

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Famous Alchemist Quotes

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. — William H. Gass

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

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon

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. — Omar Khayyam

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love — Kahlil Gibran

Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur. — Georgius Agricola

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. — Arthur Rimbaud

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create? — Ernest Holmes

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist. — Ira Remsen

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. — Starhawk

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself. — Mircea Eliade

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. — Aleister Crowley

Short Alchemist Quotes

  • When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. — Paulo Coelho
  • Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. — Hiromu Arakawa
  • When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. — Paulo Coelho
  • The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse. — Paulo Coelho
  • To obtain something, something of equal value must be given. — Hiromu Arakawa
  • People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. — Paulo Coelho
  • If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it — Paulo Coelho
  • The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness. — Paulo Coelho
  • And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. — Paulo Coelho
  • It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. — Thomas Fuller

The Alchemist Quotes

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul. — Paulo Coelho

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. — Paulo Coelho

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. — Paulo Coelho

Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth). — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense. — Paulo Coelho

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. — Catherine Marshall

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful. — Hiromu Arakawa

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur. — Paulo Coelho

We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist. — Samael Aun Weor

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality. — Savielly Tartakower

Alchemist Love Quotes

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now. — Paulo Coelho

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. — Paulo Coelho

Your eyes show the strength of your soul. — Paulo Coelho

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there. — Paulo Coelho

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. — Paulo Coelho

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth. — Paulo Coelho

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

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. — Paulo Coelho

Alchemist Book Quotes

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. — Paulo Coelho

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents. — Paulo Coelho

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny — Paulo Coelho

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. — Paulo Coelho

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. — Paulo Coelho

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force. — Paulo Coelho

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. — Paulo Coelho

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed. — Paulo Coelho

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us. — Paulo Coelho

You must always know what it is that you want. — Paulo Coelho

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More Alchemist Quotes

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. — Paulo Coelho

Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path. — Hiromu Arakawa

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure — Paulo Coelho

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle

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. — RZA

The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting. — Sayings

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