Samuel Butler Quotes - Page 3

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• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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  Inspirational, Moving, Religion

  Samuel Butler (2013). “Erewhon Revisited”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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  People, Common Sense, Atmosphere

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

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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

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  Christian, People, Atheism

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

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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  Beauty, Pain, Compassion

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• Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

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  Prayer, Children, Men

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

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  Mistake, Common, Logic

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

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• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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  Funny, Death, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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  Health, Men, Next

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• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Home

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4349, Delphi Classics

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

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  Atheist, Fighting, Names

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4357, Delphi Classics

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• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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  Funny Friend, Men

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.283, Samuel Butler

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• Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

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  Wise, Men, Able

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

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  Inspiration, Law, Feet

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• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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  Love, Money, Roots

  Erewhon (1872) ch. 20

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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  Self, Law, Firsts

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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  Life, Men, History

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

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  Past, There Is No God, Has Beens

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

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  Atheism, Kind, Should

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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  Liars, Lying, Way

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 39

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• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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  Humble, Long, Use

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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  Funny, Witty, Children

  Notebooks (1912)

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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

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  Truth, Errors, Source

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

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  Writing, Men, Years

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4167, Delphi Classics

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