Quotes by Joseph Butler

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or...

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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the...

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This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die...

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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what...

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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we...

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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice,...

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his...

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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and...

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing,...

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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense,...

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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

#Joseph Butler