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
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine 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
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
“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
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with… — 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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal 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
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
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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