Selected quotes · 17
№ 01
“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”
Samuel ButlerHappiness
№ 02
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
Samuel ButlerCreativity
№ 03
“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Samuel ButlerLife
№ 04
“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
Samuel ButlerFaith
№ 05
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
Samuel ButlerFreedom
№ 06
“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Samuel ButlerLife
№ 07
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Samuel ButlerCreativity
№ 08
“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
Samuel ButlerLife
№ 09
“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
Samuel ButlerFaith
№ 10
“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
Samuel ButlerCreativity
№ 11
“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”
Samuel ButlerJustice
№ 12
“All truth is not to be told at all times.”
Samuel ButlerJustice
№ 13
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
Samuel ButlerTime
№ 14
“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
Samuel ButlerWisdom
№ 15
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Samuel ButlerFriendship
№ 16
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Samuel ButlerCreativity
№ 17
“To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
Samuel ButlerHappiness