“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
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't… — William Poundstone 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
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera… — Naomi Wolf 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
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute,… — William Borah Copy Share Image
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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