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God and the Devil are an effo...

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The most important service re...

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

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

He that complies against his ...

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

[P]oetry resembles metaphysic...

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

An obstinate man does not hol...

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Words are like money; there i...

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Flying. Whatever any other or...

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

There are two classes [of sci...

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

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Men of Science. If they are w...

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

All animals, except man, know...

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

They say the test of literary...

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

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I believe that he was really ...

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Inspiration is never genuine ...

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

This world is like Noah's Ark...

This world is like Noah's Ark.
In which few men but many beasts embark.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Memory and forgetfulness are ...

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

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The public buys its opinions ...

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

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If I die prematurely at any r...

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

If [science] tends to thicken...

If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Youth is like spring, an over...

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

And, after all, the Athanasia...

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

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