Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

We no more deny the essential value of religion because we hold most religions false, and most professors of religion liars, than we deny that of science because we can see no great difference between men of science and theologians.


Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill (eds.), Samuel Butler's Notebooks (1951)


We no more deny the essential value of religion because we hold most religions false, and most professors of religion liars, than we deny that of...

We no more deny the essential value of religion because we hold most religions false, and most professors of religion liars, than we deny that of...

We no more deny the essential value of religion because we hold most religions false, and most professors of religion liars, than we deny that of...

We no more deny the essential value of religion because we hold most religions false, and most professors of religion liars, than we deny that of...