Logo
Quote by Joseph Butler
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered

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

Other quotes by Joseph Butler

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

Category:
Happiness
Author
Joseph Butler
Read Quote

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

Category:
Happiness
Author
Joseph Butler
Read Quote

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

Category:
respect
Author
Joseph Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. – George Mason

Category:
Happiness

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. – Anatole France

Category:
Happiness

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse

Category:
Happiness

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. – Shahrukh Khan

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

There is nothing so habit-forming as money. – Don Marquis

Category:
Money

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. – Barbara Jordan

Category:
Future

Ive always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard its been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once youve given something planetary status its kind of mean to take it away. – Jared Leto

Category:
Sympathy

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer. – Marco Rubio

Category:
Change