Scylla famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
-- Gian-Carlo Rota -
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
-- Norman Douglas -
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
-- Robert H. Jackson -
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky