Joseph Butler Quotes

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

 

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

 

 

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

 

 

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?

 

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

 

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.