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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies (Samuel Butler Quotes)
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes exceedingly difficult to find this out (Samuel Butler Quotes)
People’s sympathies seem generally to be with the fire so long as no one is in danger of being burned (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Shall I be remembered after death? I sometimes think and hope so. But I trust I may not be found out before my death (Samuel Butler Quotes)
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It is only a good, sound, truthful person who can lie to any good purpose; if a man is not habitually truthful his very lies will be false to him and betray him (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence (Samuel Butler Quotes)
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know (Samuel Butler Quotes)
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better (Samuel Butler Quotes)
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced (Samuel Butler Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name (Samuel Butler Quotes)
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’ (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since (Samuel Butler Quotes)
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God (Samuel Butler Quotes)