Samuel Butler Quote

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

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

Samuel Butler

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.

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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.

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler