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
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. — Michel Foucault 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
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as 'conscience'. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon - in humans, chimeras are one person who contains… — Susannah Cahalan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of… — Christopher Cokinos 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
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
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine 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
“That's always been the plan, Cat, to keep it all separate. The chimera is my embodiment of my lifestyle choice; one body,… — jade west 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
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
“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
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
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
