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About Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and for The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical novel that has stayed in print since publication. Butler also wrote on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art. He made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are still consulted today.
More from Samuel Butler (189 quotes) →Other sayings from Samuel Butler
- “All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”Samuel Butler
- “We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himsel…”Samuel Butler
- “Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”Samuel Butler
- “Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”Samuel Butler
Religion: more sayings
- “She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.”Philip Pullman
- “Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”Blaise Pascal
- “I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is…”Dodie Smith
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932