Samuel Butler was a Victorian novelist. Witty like Johnathan Swift and Oscar Wilde, but nonetheless more obscure, probably because he said unfavorable things about Jesus and the English Universities. In this post I wish to share some relevant quotes of his that I find extraordinarily brilliant.
- A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
All above quotes are copied from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_butler.html.
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