Best Daedalus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How frustrated the impatient carpenter, whose tools have wings and free will.”

Philosophy Earth Work Movement Health Balance Wings Minds Daedalus Healthy Progress

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

Love Stars Greek Mythology Constellations Circe Daedalus

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“It was as if we found the still heart of the universe. Nothing moved except for us.”

Heart Universe Daedalus

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.”

Circe Icarus Theseus Crete Daedalus Ariadne The Minotaur Pasiphae

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.”

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Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Annabeth pushed over an easel. Architectural drawing scattered across the floor. “I used to respect you. You were my hero! You—you built amazing things. You solved problems. Now…I don’t know what you are. Children of Athena are supposed to be wise, not just clever. Maybe you are just a machine. You should have died two thousand years ago.”

Wisdom Annabeth Chase Daedalus

Book:The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I'm looking for the labyrinth. The form that Dedalus gave me to the most disturbing question: How much of us is thought, reason, intellect... and how much delirium, hallucination, madness... and how much is a monster. The failure of every plan. A path with no way out.”

Monsters Monster Labyrinth Mazes Icarus Questions In Life Maze Daedalus Labyrinths

Book:Red Ultramarine

Source: Red Ultramarine

“Even a best iron grows brittle with too much beating”

Daedalus

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“The air is not empty space to them, it is as solid as the earth to us, or water to a fish. It holds them up and it will hold us up.”

Icarus Daedalus

Book:Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

Source: Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air and the sky are free.”

Daedalus

Author:Edith Hamilton

“Daedalus took comfort in the baby Icarus, and I loved to see him walking about with the infant dandled in his arms, showing the oblivious child the flowers and the birds and the many wonders of the palace.”

Fatherhood Inventor Icarus Crete Daedalus Young Icarus

Book:Ariadne

Source: Ariadne

“...The other picture is of three Europeans in India looking at a great new star in the milky way. These were apparently all of the guests at a large dance who were interested in such matters. Amongst those who were at all competent to form views as to the origin of this cosmoclastic explosion, the most popular theory attributed it to a collision between two stars, or a star and a nebula. There seem, however, to be at least two possible alternatives to this hypothesis. Perhaps it was the last judgement of some inhabited world, perhaps a too successful experiment in induced radioactivity the part of some of the dwellers there. And perhaps also these two hypotheses are identical, and what we were watching that evening was the detonation of a world on which too many men came out to look at the stars when they should have been dancing.”

Daedalus

Author:Haldane J B S

“I am like Icarus without wings. But the desire to fly was very strong in me. I think I was always looking for a Daedalus.”

Flying Icarus Daedalus

Book:The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

“As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.”

Education Highest Guides Wit Flying Daedalus

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

“There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus”

Might Given Answers Yeah Liars Zeus Daedalus

Author:Rick Riordan

“A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—”

Knows Should Wells Trouble Building Mouths Invention Rude Fixing Daedalus

Author:Rick Riordan

“Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure”

Grief Sea Design Disappointed Icarus Daedalus

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”