Quote

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
Writer
Notts
Cellarius
Sword
Perish
Appeal
Appeals
Logic
Shall
Like

More quotes by Samuel Butler

Image
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler
Image
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
Samuel Butler
Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler
Image
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler
Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
Samuel Butler
Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Samuel Butler
Image
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Samuel Butler
Image
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
Image
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
Image
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
Image
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler
Image
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler
Image
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Image
History is a bucket of ashes.
Samuel Butler
Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Image
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
Image
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
Samuel Butler
Image
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
Samuel Butler