Chimera Quotes

30 Chimera quotes by 29 unique authors

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
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
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
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
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon
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
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
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. — Janos Bolyai
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
Nature is only another chimera. — Julien Torma
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
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler
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 Å½iÅ¾ek
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
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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall
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
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
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
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams. — Jasper Fforde
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Without democracy freedom is a chimera — Octavio Paz
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy

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