Joseph Butler Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

  Joseph Butler

  Happiness, Motivation, Satisfaction

• Happiness does not consist in self-love.

  Joseph Butler

  Happiness, Happy, Self

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

• 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

  Happiness, Men, World

  Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215

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