Nature is only another chimera.

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my…

— John Donne

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar…

— Will Self

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of…

— Michel Foucault

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void…

— Umberto Eco

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it…

— Quintilian

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

— Wyndham Lewis

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

— Mason Cooley

“Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was…

— Rob Thurman

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

— Karl Kraus

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

— Octavio Paz

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

— Sophie Swetchine

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

— Alex Tabarrok