Samuel Butler Quotes

It takes but the blink of an eye to turn a peaceful man into a warrior.

Many people cannot even emancipate themselves, that is, they cannot even realize the slavery in which the ideas amidst which they have been educated keep them.

The life is like music, it must be composed with the ear, the feeling, and the instinct, not by rules.

All progress is based on the universal and innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.

Machines, being incapable of fighting by themselves, have managed to make man fight with them.

The longer a dispute lasts, the further we are from the end.

The machines evolve and reproduce at a prodigious speed. If we do not declare all-out war on them, it will be too late to resist their dominance.

The most stubborn people are often the most wrong, like those who have not learned to doubt.

The man is the only animal that can be friends with the victims he tries to eat until he eats them.

Very little can be done with faith alone; nothing can be done without it.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient data.

It is better to have loved and lost than to have never lost.