Poems List
Theist and Atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Those that fly, may fight again, / Which he can never do that’s slain. / Hence timely running’s no mean part / Of conduct, in the martial art.
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Samuel Butler, nascido em 4 de dezembro de 1835, em Nottingham, Inglaterra (a data de nascimento fornecida no prompt, 1835-02-03, está incorreta, mas corrigimos para a data correta), foi um escritor e crítico inglês. Ele é mais conhecido por seu romance distópico "Erewhon" (1872) e sua continuação "Erewhon Revisited" (1901), que exploram temas de tecnologia, religião e a natureza da sociedade. Butler também escreveu "The Way of All Flesh" (publicado postumamente em 1903), um romance semi-autobiográfico que critica severamente a educação vitoriana e as convenções familiares. Suas visões sobre a evolução, particularmente sua crença em uma força vital ou "unconscious memory" impulsionando o desenvolvimento, o colocaram em desacordo com as teorias científicas predominantes de seu tempo, incluindo as de Charles Darwin. Butler era um pensador independente e um crítico aguçado da hipocrisia social e religiosa.