All progress is based upon a universal i... by Samuel Butler | We Heart Quotes

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

- Samuel Butler

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Faith Nothing

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

- Samuel Butler

Money Want Love

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

- Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

- Samuel Butler

Fear

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

- Samuel Butler

God

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

- Samuel Butler

Injustice Being

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

- Samuel Butler

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