"Language is the only chimera whose illusory power……" — Karl Kraus

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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… — Michel Foucault
• Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress… — Edward Bellamy
• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not… — Christopher Cokinos
• The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature,… — 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,… — John Donne
• The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also… — 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,… — 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… — Alex Tabarrok
• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler

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