An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among… — Samuel Butler Ideas Copy Share Image
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who… — Samuel Butler Life Copy Share Image
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. — Samuel Butler Atheist Copy Share Image
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his… — Samuel Butler Dream Copy Share Image
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in… — Samuel Butler Christ Copy Share Image
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,… — Samuel Butler Compassion Copy Share Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — Samuel Butler Abstinence Copy Share Image
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has… — Samuel Butler Attention Copy Share Image
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
“I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was… — Samuel Butler Dilletantism Copy Share Image
“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass… — Samuel Butler Every man Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Atoms Copy Share Image
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler Adapting Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-- delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but… — Samuel Butler Autumn Copy Share Image
“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know,… — Samuel Butler Human heart Copy Share Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler Asylums Copy Share Image
“Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
