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“I lift up my voices and shatter the night with my emptiness, my heartlessness. With nothing now to bind me, the world is a hunting ground. - Scylla”

Rage Mythology Odyssey Monstrosity Scylla

Book:Metamorphica

Source: Metamorphica

“Sometimes what we seek to gain through "winning" a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised.”

Sacrifice Conflict Compromise Mediation Charybdis Scylla

Book:Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“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.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Womens Rights Men Women Default Charybdis Scylla

Book:Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology

Source: Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology

“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”

Men Want Wells Persons Said Church Party Judging Guides Sensible Sober Charybdis Scylla

Author:John Henry Newman

“In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.”

May Important Real Ends Enough Too Much Failing Missing Objects Models Physics Monsters Abstract Charybdis Scylla

Book:Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

Source: Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

“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.”

Standards Mathematics Educated Contempt Misunderstanding Treacherous Navigation Layman Charybdis Scylla

Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

“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.”

Way Mind States Christianity Atheism State Of Mind Skepticism Navigation Charybdis Scylla

Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.”

Humans Anxiety Bark Ennui Human Happiness Charybdis Scylla

Book:The Map of Life

Source: The Map of Life

“The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.”

Problem Charybdis Scylla

Author:Robert H. Jackson