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• Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

  Joseph Butler

  Fate, Desire, Action

  'Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel' (1726) no. 7

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• Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

  Joseph Butler

  Joseph Butler (1844). “Sermons”, p.19

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• 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

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

  Joseph Butler

  Nursing, Compassion, Nurse

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Good Life, Real, Liberty

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• 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

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• 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

  Philosophical, Thinking, People

  Joseph Butler (1816). “The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.6

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• The first thought is often the best.

  Joseph Butler

  Primeros

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.450

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• La virtud no debe considerarse como mera inocencia o abstención del mal, sino como el ejercicio de nuestras facultades para hacer el bien.

  Joseph Butler

  Light, Innocence, Action

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

  Joseph Butler

  Life, Statistics, Guides

  'The Analogy of Religion' (1736) 'Introduction'

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• 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

  Biblia, Libro, Bíblico

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is prefixed: an account of the character and writings of the author”, p.196

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• Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

  Joseph Butler

  Men, Two, Capacity

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

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

  Joseph Butler

  Virtue, Advantage, Virtuous

  Joseph Butler, Joseph McKee (1847). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature”, p.69

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• 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

  Passion, Men, Desire

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Perfect, Affection

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• 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

  Sorrow, World, Satisfaction

  Joseph Butler (1852). “The Analogy of Religion ... A new edition, with an introductory essay, by Rev. Albert Barnes; and a complete index”, p.437

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• Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Order, Imperfection

  Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”

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

  Joseph Butler

  Eye, Doubt, No Doubt

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• El dolor, la pena y la miseria tienen derecho a nuestra ayuda: la compasión nos hace recordar la deuda, y que nos la debemos tanto a nosotros mismos como a los afligidos.

  Joseph Butler

  Pain, Compassion, Mind

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

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• That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

  Joseph Butler

  Mean, Foundation, Consideration

  Joseph Butler (1860). “Analogy of Religion”, p.90

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• There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

  Joseph Butler

  Hair, World, Moral

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The Works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is Prefixed: Sermons. Correspondence between Dr. Butler and Dr. Clarke”, p.21

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Principles

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Self, Self Love, Hatred

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Five Sermons”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Los hombres son impacientes, y para precipitar las cosas; pero el Autor de la Naturaleza parece deliberado a través de Sus operaciones, cumpliendo Sus fines naturales por pasos lentos y sucesivos. Y hay un plan de cosas trazado de antemano, el cual, por su naturaleza, requiere varios sistemas de medios, así como una gran cantidad de tiempo, con el fin de llevar a cabo sus diversas partes en ejecución.

  Joseph Butler

  Naturaleza, Media, Ciencia

  Joseph Butler (1798). “The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, ... in the Year MDCCLI. By Joseph Butler, ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Preface, ... by Samuel Halifax, ...”, p.228

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