Quote by Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficien

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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I never called my work an art. Its part of show business, the business of building entertainment. – Walt Disney

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. – Jackson Pollock

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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