 | 1895 - 440 sider
...they are,' says Bishop Butler in his unadorned but forcible English, ' things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why, then, should we desire to be deceived 1 ' Yet men do deceive themselves every day, pretending that many things are certain which are not... | |
 | 1964 - 292 sider
...moral courage to say, with Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752), '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?',1 but whether in fact what ultimately is has no relation to what ultimately ought to be.... | |
 | 1884 - 1104 sider
...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... | |
 | 1925 - 966 sider
...Bishop Butler told us from his eighteenth century wisdom : 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 ? 1 The generation which came through the war and the younger generation which is following us are... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 sider
...expression of Bishop Butler's that Arnold was fond of quoting: "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?" — Sermon VII, "Upon the Character of Balaam," r16; Works, ed. WE Gladstone (Oxford, 1896), II, 134.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 634 sider
...'Things are 'what they are, and the consequences of them tzill be what they will be; why then thould vx desire to be deceived?' The laws which govern the...and that thing pernicious, are not of our making or 5 under our power. Our wishing and asserting can avail nothing against them. Lord Ripon's calling Mr.... | |
 | John Dewey - 1977 - 758 sider
...ordered in other ways display the properties of water. "Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? ' ' II Mr. Sheldon claims that in adopting scientific method as the way for securing reliable knowledge,... | |
 | 1917 - 592 sider
...thoughts higher than our thoughts. Let us remember the words of Butler: "Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we seek to deceive ourselves?" When we face two facts that to our conceptions are contradictions, what... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 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... | |
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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? 
