The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. 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.
Constancy is the chimera of love.
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
Nature is only another chimera.
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster. . . what a contradiction, what a prodigy
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Without democracy freedom is a chimera
