Quotes About Chimera

We believe we can create a chimera virus," he said, elliptically.

A quantity is something or nothing: if it is something, it has not yet vanished; if it is nothing, it has literally vanished. The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera. D'Alembert

You should know that The Lost History of Dreams isn't about dreams or 'chimera of wonder,' as the pilgrims claim. Nor is it about love. It's about the ambitions and hopes that plague us in life, which we end up regretting." She shot Robert a meaningful glare. "Now go.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your tears, and it will take on a body. Reality is nothing more than the chimera subjected to our desire and our suffering.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

I stared at the symbol, the chimera, the bile roiling in my gut. "Not this time." "I haven't run with it," Cindy said. "But it's out there. Everybody thinks these murders are connected. This symbol is the key, right? Let me give you a second definition I found: 'a grotesque product of the imagination.' That fits, right?

In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon - in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That's right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.

You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the moral world — THE VANITY OF A WOMAN!

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

The evolutionary, gene transformation of the chimera of thinking, due to the gene of ingenuity and egoism, expands, as it were, the universe of dissociation. Anthropomorphic worldview of multiculturalism and hydras of science and pop culture that raise mestizos of globalism of various mentalities.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera