Joseph Butler Quotes
43 quotes
in 635 categories
-
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
-
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet…
-
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a…
-
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to…
-
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
-
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive…
-
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become…
-
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
-
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
-
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and…
-
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love…
-
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed,…
-
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested…
-
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular…
-
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed…
-
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
-
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
-
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
-
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
-
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be…
Browse Joseph Butler Quotes by Category