Chimerical Quotes
13 quotes by 10 authors
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
— Claude Bernard
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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
— James Madison
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Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion…
— Karl Marx
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving;…
— Georges Rouault
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces…
— E F Schumacher
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
— William Hazlitt
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.…
— Marquis de Sade
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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
— James Thomson
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The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
— Bernard Grasset
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis De Sade
Who Wrote These Chimerical Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 13 Chimerical Quotes as follows: