Capacity Quote by Joseph Butler

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

— Joseph Butler

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:…

— Joseph Butler

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there…

— Joseph Butler

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and…

— Joseph Butler

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last…

— Joseph Butler

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…

— Joseph Butler

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it…

— Joseph Butler

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…

— Joseph Butler

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not…

— Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

— Joseph Butler