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The principle we call self-lov...

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 affections rest in the external things themselves.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

The sum of the whole is plainl...

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Love of our neighbour, then, h...

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 love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Virtue, as such, naturally pro...

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

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

In all common ordinary cases, ...

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Happiness does not consist in ...

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

People might love themselves w...

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

The first thought is often the...

The first thought is often the best.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

People habituate themselves to...

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

The love of liberty that is no...

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Compassion is a call, a demand...

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Pain and sorrow and misery hav...

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

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

As this world was not intended...

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Happiness or satisfaction cons...

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

It is not at all incredible, t...

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

Men are impatient, and for pre...

Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

But to us, probability is the ...

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

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

The tongue may be employed abo...

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

It is come, I know not how, to...

It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

To desire the attainment of th...

To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.

Joseph Butler 48 quotes

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