Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Morality Quotes

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music...

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music...

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to...

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to...

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind

Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

All truth is not to be told at all times.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep...

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep...

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete...

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete...

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and...

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and...