Alchemy
Quotes & Thinkers in Alchemy
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"Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being."
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🇩🇪Carl Jung
Psychology
1852–1924
"Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being."
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Robert Fludd
Mathematics
1574–1637
"Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world."
6 quotes
🇩🇪Paracelsus
Philosophy
1493–1541
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison."
25 quotes
Cosimo de' Medici
Politics
1519–1574
"There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy."
3 quotes
John Dee
Science
1527–1609
"It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils."
9 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things , why should we bother with evidence?"
— Carl Jung, b. 1852View →
"We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is reality, and experiential fact. We only don't understand it."
— Carl Jung, b. 1852View →
"I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."
— Carl Jung, b. 1852View →
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
— Carl Jung, b. 1852View →
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Jung, b. 1852View →