"Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance…" — Samuel Butler

"Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods"

— Samuel Butler

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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The… — Charles A. Beard
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. — Aeschylus
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely… — Dan Brown
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then… — Leon Battista Alberti
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell

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