"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT……" — 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 supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."
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42 Quotes by Joseph Butler
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and…
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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…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of…
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