Quote

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

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
Absolute
Ethics
Morality
Stagnation
Absolutes

More quotes by Samuel Butler

Image
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler
Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Samuel Butler
Image
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
Image
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
Image
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler
Image
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
Samuel Butler
Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler
Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler
Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler
Image
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler
Image
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler
Image
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler
Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Samuel Butler
Image
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
Image
History is a bucket of ashes.
Samuel Butler
Image
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler
Image
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
Samuel Butler