 | Arthur Edward Murphy - 1996 - 344 sider
...practical sanity which is prepared to say, with Arnold and Woodbridge, that "things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we wish to be deceived?" 2 That either idealists or pragmatists were given to mere wishful thinking would,... | |
 | Michael D. Goulder, Stanley E. Porter, Paul M. Joyce, David E. Orton - 1994 - 408 sider
...love for Bishop Butler's remark in the Fifteen Sermons that "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 7, end). This study in his honour is a study of a famous passage from the New Testament on... | |
 | Aelred Graham - 1994 - 256 sider
...to adjust to the inevitable. "Things and actions are what they are," said Bishop Joseph Butler, "and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?" Why indeed? Unfortunately unregenerate human nature often does desire to be deceived, as Gautama Buddha... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - 270 sider
...American campuses by the 1950s. "Things and actions," wrote Bishop Butler, "are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" Putting the present matter a little differently, why should we desire to be deceived about the nature... | |
 | Julian Barnes - 2007 - 242 sider
...fruitless our efforts to muzzle the beast? Who was it said, '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?' Bastard. Old eighteenth-century bastard. Deceive me, O deceive me — as long as I know it and like... | |
 | John M. Robertson - 2002 - 288 sider
...a sentence like this sentence, splcnrliilc verax, of Butler's : — ' Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then shonld we wish to be deceived? ' To take in and digest such a sentence as that is an education in moral... | |
 | Sir Isaiah Berlin, Isaiah Berlin - 2004 - 840 sider
...built on shifting sands. 'Things and Actions are what they are,' said a famous English Bishop, 'and the Consequences of them will be what they will be: Why then should we desire to be deceived?'1 Was Weizmann, were we who followed him, deceived? Were the prophecies of those who disagreed... | |
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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? 
