„Freundschaft ist wie Geld, leichter gewonnen als erhalten.“
Notebooks, 1912
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„Wir denken wie wir denken hauptsächlich, weil andere so denken.“
Notebooks, 1912
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Der Weg allen Fleisches. Roman, postum 1903. Übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Helmut Findeisen. dtv Klassik, München 1991, ISBN 3-423-02240-X, 19. Kapitel.
(Original en: "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." - The Way of All Flesh", Wikisource, chapter 19.
Notebooks, 1912
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„Der beste Lügner ist der, der mit den wenigsten Lügen am längsten auskommt.“
Der Weg allen Fleisches 1903, 39
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„Die Welt wird letztlich nur denen folgen, die sie verachten - und ihr dienen.“
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Samuel Butler d.J. Zitate und Sprüche
Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1903, 11
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„Es ist viel sicherer, zu wenig als zu viel zu wissen.“
Der Weg allen Fleisches, 1903, 5
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„Nicht Worte sollen wir lesen, sondern den Menschen, den wir hinter den Worten fühlen.“
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Samuel Butler d.J.: Zitate auf Englisch
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
Samuel Butler buch The Way of All Flesh
Quelle: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 19
“It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
An Apology for the Devil
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Quelle: The Note Books of Samuel Butler
“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”
Samuel Butler buch The Way of All Flesh
Quelle: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 24
Samuel Butler buch The Way of All Flesh
Quelle: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 14
Kontext: Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Life and Love
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
Silence and Tact
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.”
Great Things
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
Ego and Non-Ego
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles
Waste-Paper Baskets
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Inarticulate Touches
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
“Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.”
Feeling
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
Waste
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VIII - Handel and Music
Quelle: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 27
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
Samuel Butler buch The Way of All Flesh
Quelle: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 26
“An energy is a soul — a something working in us.”
Matter and Mind, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
Cannibalism
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Handel and Bach, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VIII - Handel and Music
Samuel Butler buch The Way of All Flesh
Quelle: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 75
Intellectual Self-Indulgence
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Philosophy and Equal Temperament
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles
Ephemeral and Permanent Success
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
