 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 sider
...a good deal of self-flattery and self-delusion which is mischievous. "Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" In that uncompromising sentence of Bishop Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both... | |
 | Arnold Bennett - 1907 - 134 sider
...done, and there's an end of it. As a great prelate unforgettably said : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why, then, attempt to deceive ourselves " — that remorse for wickedness is a useful and praiseworthy exercise... | |
 | 1908 - 888 sider
...Socialist agitators and the labor leaders could be got to read it. "For things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?" At any rate, those who do not "desire to be deceived" will find much "dry light" in Mr. Holt's »On... | |
 | 1908 - 874 sider
...Socialist agitators and the labor leaders could be got to read it. "For things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?" At any rate, those who do not "desire to be deceived" will find much "dry light" in Mr. Holt's •On... | |
 | 1909 - 756 sider
...Butler's saying is aptly taken as the motto of the book : " 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 ? " The author's aim throughout is to exhibit morality as neither " a mystery nor a convention, but simply... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1909 - 296 sider
...CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS DEDICATED TO N. MARCH 30, 1909 " 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 ? " BISHOP BUTLER. PREFACE THIS little book is the preliminary sketch of a system of ethics. Its form... | |
 | Edgar Gardner Murphy - 1909 - 288 sider
...institutions, contains no peril so great as its own self-doubting heart. "Things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " * That the deeper spirit of the South, responding to the forces that encompass us, will accept... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1909 - 290 sider
...convention, but_sjmply_an .observance of the laws of ^provident living "Things and are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived?"1 This appeal, commonplace enough, but confident and true, sounds the note with which through... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1909 - 490 sider
...gratifying one. But I am much attached to that saying of Bishop Butler, "Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we deceive ourselves?" I see no occasion in these matters to be either optimist or pessimist. Much better... | |
 | Charles Marriott - 1910 - 334 sider
...all people, that he got the nearest interpretation of the message : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " All through the day, too, he found himself trying to account for what he found out-of-date and... | |
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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? 
