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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has 152 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure…
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the…
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone...…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
— 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…
— 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;…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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