"But to us, probability is the very guide…" — Joseph Butler

"But to us, probability is the very guide of life."

— Joseph Butler

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42 Quotes by Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was…
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and…
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…
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them.…
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…
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their…
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of…
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being…

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More Guide Quotes

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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them.… — Drew Barrymore
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing… — Halle Berry
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let… — Buffalo Bill
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. — Louis D. Brandeis
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern… — Jeff Bridges
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the… — Joseph Brodsky
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. — Les Brown
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the… — John Burroughs
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he… — Samuel Butler

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