Joseph Butler Happiness Quotes

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What did Joseph Butler say about Happiness?

Joseph Butler has written many quotes about Happiness. E.g.,

  • Happiness does not consist in self-love.
  • Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
  • Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

What are the top most famous Happiness quotes by Joseph Butler?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Happiness by Joseph Butler.

  • Happiness does not consist in self-love.
  • Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
  • Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
  • 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.
  • 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.