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
- God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- He that is down can fall no lower.
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.
Best Quotes
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.