The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than...

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than...

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or...

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to...

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to...

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one...

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one...

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called...

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped....

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped....

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.