Samuel Butler Quotes

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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  Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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  Integrity, Grateful, Character

  Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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  Motivational

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4163, Delphi Classics

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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

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  People, Dying, Done

  TheWay of All Flesh ch. 24 (1903)

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• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

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  Ignorance, Character, Pride

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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  Life, Crazy, Bad Ass

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• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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  Sympathy, Kind, Death Sympathy

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

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  Logic, Reason, Enough

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

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  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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  Faith, Motivation, Littles

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4356, Delphi Classics

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

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  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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  Education, Past, History

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• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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  Thinking, Enemy, Looks

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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  Logic, Reason And Logic, Appeals

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4351, Delphi Classics

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

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  Friendship, Memories, Two

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

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  Love, Life, Character

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