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Particular Quotes by Joseph Butler
- 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…
- 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…
- Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
- The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time…
- Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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