Erewhonian Quotes

No Erewhonian believes that the world is as black as it has been here painted, but it is one of their peculiarities that they very often do not believe or mean things which they profess to regard as indisputable. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
Their view evidently was that genius was like offences--needs must that it come, but woe unto that man through whom it comes. A man's business, they hold, is to think as his neighbours do, for Heaven help him if he thinks good what they count bad. And really it is hard to see how the Erewhonian theory differs from our own, for the word "idiot” only means a person who forms his opinions for himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)