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Samuel Butler – angielski pisarz, myśliciel, malarz, muzyk i podróżnik.

Ukończył St John’s College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge.

Jest autorem utopijnej powieści Erewhon, będącej satyrą na wiktoriańską Anglię. Napisał powieść autobiograficzną w formie kroniki rodzinnej Droga człowiecza . Krytykę chrześcijaństwa oraz instytucji kościelnych zawarł w dziele The Fair Haven.

Butler żywo interesował się teorią ewolucji Karola Darwina, włoską sztuką, historią literatury oraz krytyką literacką. Przetłumaczył Iliadę i Odyseję Homera na język angielski .

W 1863 roku napisał artykuł Darwin among the Machines, w którym porównał rozwój ówczesnych maszyn do ewolucji biologicznej organizmów żywych. Wyraził on także przekonanie, że w przyszłości maszyny mogą stać się osobnym gatunkiem istot i próbować pozbawić ludzi dominującej pozycji na świecie. Artykuł ten napisał pod pseudonimem Cellarius.

Na jego cześć został nazwany Dżihad Butleriański w serii powieści fantastycznych Diuna. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Grudzień 1835 – 18. Czerwiec 1902
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„Różnica między Bogiem a historykami polega głównie na tym, że Bóg nie może zmieniać przeszłości.”

Samuel Butler (pisarz)
O Bogu , O przeszłości

„Złodziej pozwala wybrać: pieniądze albo życie; kobieta żąda obu naraz.”

Samuel Butler (pisarz)

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both (ang.)

O życiu , O kobietach , O pieniądzach

Samuel Butler (pisarz): Cytaty po angielsku

“No one with any sense of self-respect will place himself on an equality in the matter of affection with those who are less lucky than himself in birth, health, money, good looks, capacity, or anything else. Indeed, that dislike and even disgust should be felt by the fortunate for the unfortunate, or at any rate for those who have been discovered to have met with any of the more serious and less familiar misfortunes, is not only natural, but desirable for any society, whether of man or brute.”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 10

“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”

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Writing for a Hundred Years Hence
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”

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Thought and Word, viii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.”

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Myself
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XII - The Enfant Terrible of Literature

“We take it that when the state of things shall have arrived which we have been above attempting to describe, man will have become to the machine what the horse and the dog are to man. He will continue to exist, nay even to improve, and will be probably better off in his state of domestication under the beneficent rule of the machines than he is in his present wild state. We treat our horses, dogs, cattle and sheep, on the whole, with great kindness, we give them whatever experience teaches us to be best for them, and there can be no doubt that our use of meat has added to the happiness of the lower animals far more than it has detracted from it; in like manner it is reasonable to suppose that the machines will treat us kindly, for their existence is as dependent upon ours as ours is upon the lower animals.”

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Darwin Among the Machines
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part III - The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit

“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”

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The Defeat of Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death

“All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.”

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Development
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.”

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Samuel Butler książka The Way of All Flesh

Źródło: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 6

“There are two classes, those who want to know and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.”

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Scientists
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

“A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.”

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Portraits
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.”

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Memory, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design

“It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, exceptis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.”

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Money
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit

“Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.”

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Sketching from Nature
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

“He who would propagate an opinion must begin by making sure of his ground and holding it firmly. There is as little use in trying to breed from weak opinion as from other weak stock.”

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The Art of Propagating Opinion
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“There is nothing less powerful than knowledge unattached, and incapable of application. That is why what little knowledge I have has done myself personally so much harm. I do not know much, but if I knew a good deal less than that little I should be far more powerful.”

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Knowledge is Power
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“It is not our business,” he said, “to help students to think for themselves. Surely this is the very last thing which one who wishes them well should encourage them to do. Our duty is to ensure that they shall think as we do, or at any rate, as we hold it expedient to say we do.”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 22

“Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.”

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Honesty
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VIII - Handel and Music

“If it be urged that the action of the potato is chemical and mechanical only, and that it is due to the chemical and mechanical effects of light and heat, the answer would seem to lie in an inquiry whether every sensation is not chemical and mechanical in its operation? whether those things which we deem most purely spiritual are anything but disturbances of equilibrium in an infinite series of levers, beginning with those that are too small for microscopic detection, and going up to the human arm and the appliances which it makes use of? whether there be not a molecular action of thought, whence a dynamical theory of the passions shall be deducible? Whether strictly speaking we should not ask what kind of levers a man is made of rather than what is his temperament? How are they balanced? How much of such and such will it take to weigh them down so as to make him do so and so?”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 23

“We find it difficult to sympathise with the emotions of a potato; so we do with those of an oyster. Neither of these things makes a noise on being boiled or opened, and noise appeals to us more strongly than anything else, because we make so much about our own sufferings. Since, then, they do not annoy us by any expression of pain we call them emotionless; and so qua mankind they are; but mankind is not everybody.”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 23

“It is said of money that it is more easily made than kept and this is true of many things, such as friendship; and even life itself is more easily got than kept.”

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Colour http://books.google.com/books?id=JHguFYrTEQ0C&q=%22It+is+said+of+money+that+it+is+more+easily+made+than+kept+and+this+is+true+of+many+things+such+as+friendship+and+even+life+itself+is+more+easily+got+than+kept%22&pg=PA141#v=onepage
Often paraphrased as "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

“A man can stand being told that he must submit to a severe surgical operation, or that he has some disease which will shortly kill him, or that he will be a cripple or blind for the rest of his life; dreadful as such tidings must be, we do not find that they unnerve the greatest number of mankind; most men, indeed, go coolly enough even to be hanged, but the strongest quail before financial ruin, and the better men they are, the more complete, as a general rule, is their prostration.”

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Samuel Butler książka The Way of All Flesh

Źródło: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 66

“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”

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The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book X

“They [my thoughts] are like persons met upon a journey; I think them very agreeable at first but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them.”

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My Thoughts
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

“They were gentlemen in the full sense of the word; and what has one not said in saying this?”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 17

“All eating is a kind of proselytising — a kind of dogmatising — a maintaining that the eater’s way of looking at things is better than the eatee’s.”

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Eating and Proselytising
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter

“He [the Philosopher] should have made many mistakes and been saved often by the skin of his teeth, for the skin of one’s teeth is the most teaching thing about one. He should have been, or at any rate believed himself, a great fool and a great criminal. He should have cut himself adrift from society, and yet not be without society.”

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The Philosopher
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit

“To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

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Further Extracts from the Note-Books of Samuel Butler http://books.google.com/books?id=zltaAAAAMAAJ&q="To+do+great+work+a+man+must+be+very+idle+as+well+as+very+industrious"&pg=PA262#v=onepage, compiled and edited by A.T. Bartholomew (1934), p. 262

“But the main argument on which they rely is that of economy: for they know that they will sooner gain their end by appealing to men’s pockets, in which they have generally something of their own, than to their heads, which contain for the most part little but borrowed or stolen property.”

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Źródło: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 12

“To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.”

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Providence and Improvidence, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

“In the highest consciousness there is still unconsciousness, in the lowest unconsciousness there is still consciousness. If there is no consciousness there is no thing, or nothing. To understand perfectly would be to cease to understand at all.”

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Equilibrium
Źródło: The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part V - Vibrations