Chimeras Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who Wrote These Chimeras Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Chimeras Quotes as follows: