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There is one class of mind th...

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Nature. As the word is now co...

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

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They say the test of [literar...

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

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You cannot have a thing "matt...

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

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A man should have any number ...

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

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The human intellect owes its ...

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

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This world is like Noah's Ark...

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Brigands will demand your mon...

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

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I am the enfant terrible of l...

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

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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.

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Science is being daily more a...

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

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Business should be like relig...

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

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Sensible people get the great...

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

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Let man be true and every god...

Let man be true and every god a liar.

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