Laxmi Prasad Devkota vs. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
1909 – 1959
Laxmi Prasad Devkota was a Nepalese poet, playwright, novelist, and politician. Honored with the title of Mahakabi in Nepali literature, he was known as a poet with a golden heart, and is considered one of the most famous literary figures in Nepal. Some of his popular works include Muna Madan, Sulochana, Kunjini, Bhikhari, and Shakuntala.
"To doubt is better, because it helps understand, aids searching. Question is everything, answer is maturity."
Samuel Butler (novelist)
1835 – 1902
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
"All we know is, that even the humblest dead may live along after all trace of the body has disappeared; we see them doing it in the bodies and memories of these…"
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