“ ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are. ”
Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
|---|---|
| Source | The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |
| Topic | ideas |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Note | |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6173-h/6173-h.htm |
Context
“As I did like the subjects and the books came and said they were to be written, I grumbled a little and wrote them. [106]
Great Works
These have always something of the “de profundis” about them.
New Ideas
Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.
Books and Children
If the literary offspring is not to die young, almost as much trouble must be taken with it as with the bringing up of a physical child. Still, the physical child is the harder work of the two.”
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