Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- He that is down can fall no lower.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
Best Quotes
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
- I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
- For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.