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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.

  • 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.

    Men  
    Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215
  • Happiness does not consist in self-love.

    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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Joseph Butler

  • Born: May 18, 1692
  • Died: June 16, 1752
  • Occupation: Philosopher