What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as 'conscience'. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life.… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill… — E.E. Giorgi Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is not any haunt of prophecy, Nor any old chimera of the grave, Neither the golden underground, nor isle Melodious, where… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Wolves did not keep secrets from one another. They didn’t worry about having enough money or finishing school or winning races .… — C.D. Bell Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.” — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
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