More From Joseph Butler
- "The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of."
- "Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."
- "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."
More In Happiness
- "Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."― John Ruskin
- "Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."― Irving Babbitt
- "Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."― Milton Glaser