Quotes by Joseph Butler

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)

But to us, probability is the very guide of life. (Joseph Butler)

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. (Joseph Butler)

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)

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. (Joseph Butler)

Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them. (Joseph Butler)

Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them.. (Joseph Butler)

Happiness does not consist in self-love. (Joseph Butler)

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. (Joseph Butler)

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. (Joseph Butler)