Robert Burton
View AuthorA word hurts more deeply than a sword.
Robert Burton
View AuthorDue to our ignorance, we do not know the necessary things; due to error, we know them incorrectly.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorIt takes but the blink of an eye to turn a peaceful man into a warrior.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorMany 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.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorThe life is like music, it must be composed with the ear, the feeling, and the instinct, not by rules.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorAll progress is based on the universal and innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorMachines, being incapable of fighting by themselves, have managed to make man fight with them.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorThe longer a dispute lasts, the further we are from the end.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorThe 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.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorThe most stubborn people are often the most wrong, like those who have not learned to doubt.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorThe man is the only animal that can be friends with the victims he tries to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
View AuthorVery little can be done with faith alone; nothing can be done without it.