Affection Quote by Joseph Butler

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…

— 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…

— Joseph Butler

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome…

— Luce Irigaray

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

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

— Tyra Banks

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship…

— Emilie du Chatelet

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being…

— Bell Hooks

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld