Prometheus Quotes

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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he? — Cyrano de Bergerac
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see… — Ovid
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. — Arthur Koestler
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who… — John Godfrey Saxe
Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500… — John Godfrey Saxe
Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free… — Luke Rhinehart
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies… — W. Somerset Maugham
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man.… — Cyrano de Bergerac
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture… — Herman Melville
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him… — Oriana Fallaci
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal,… — Pablo Picasso
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we… — Tom Robbins
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what… — Brian Andreas
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And… — Lord Byron
Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time. — Damon Lindelof
Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we… — Damon Lindelof
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant… — Hartley Coleridge

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