Chimera Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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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 detaching…
— Michel Foucault
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.…
— Christopher Cokinos
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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
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The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
— Gustave Le Bon
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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 knees,…
— John Donne
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The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to…
— Vasily Grossman
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
— Janos Bolyai
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to…
— Leslie Stephen
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Nature is only another chimera.
— Julien Torma
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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
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I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
— Adolf Hitler
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This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those…
— Slavoj Žižek
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In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily…
— R C Sproul
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more…
— William Borah
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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
— Blaise Pascal
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To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
— Marc Chagall
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual…
— Germaine Greer
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Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera:…
— Will Self
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we…
— Donna J. Haraway
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