#alchemy

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance. ↗

— Charles Williams

#christian-hermeticism #inspirational #supernatural #tarot #inspirational

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #religion #religion

Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities.... thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation. It's like there's some missing ingredient..... Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of years, pouring tons of money into research, and to this day they don't have a theory. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowence. Humans are pretty cheaply made. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #human #money

Mankind cannot gain anything with first giving something in return... ↗

— Alphonse Elric

#science #science

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. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#cinema #combination #during #editing #emotional

He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#alchemy #magic-realism #magical-realism #surrealism #music

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

— William H. Gass

#writing #change

People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles ↗

— Avery Williams

#magic #miracles #world #nature

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

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing

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

#art #delightful #distort #far #i