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Scylla Quotes

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

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

William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Anxiety, Scylla, Bark
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scylla, Anarchy, Rich
'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821, published 1840)

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
Mind, Atheism, Scylla
Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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

Robert H. Jackson
Scylla, Problem, Charybdis
"Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co., 341 U.S. 246, 250". Judicial opinion, 1951.

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
Men, World, Scylla
Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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
Scylla, Navigation, Mathematics
Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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