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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
- 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
- The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — 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… — 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