It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil--viz. the ...deadly atheism which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist; and that the attainment of a high ideal is a hopeless chimera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a ...monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Word in the desert Is most attacked by voices of temptation,... The crying shadow in the funeral dance, The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphem...ism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let m...en learn to serve language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all thing...s, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann's was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a ...quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »