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Chimera Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- 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.
- 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…
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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)… — Michel Foucault
- Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy
- That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of… — Christopher Cokinos
- The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience… — 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
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- 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… — 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… — Alex Tabarrok
- I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler