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Joseph Butler has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness…
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
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So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency…
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And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond…
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We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,…
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human…
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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They told her she wasn't pretty. She knew they were right. The desire to be skinny took over her at night. She…
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