 | 1925 - 966 lehte
...rightly fear the truth. Bishop Butler told us from his eighteenth century wisdom : Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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 lehte
...160:38-161:1. An expression of Bishop Butler's that Arnold was fond of quoting: "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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.... | |
 | John Dewey - 1977 - 758 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 lehte
...the inevitable. The philosopher might well have recalled with Bishop Butler that " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be." Thus reconciled in his own mind, Hume continued, so far as possible, his normal activities. Up to the... | |
 | 1917 - 592 lehte
...higher than the earth so are his 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... | |
 | Arthur Edward Murphy - 1996 - 344 lehte
...they may be, or to the 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,... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 lehte
...altogether a 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... | |
 | Michael D. Goulder, Stanley E. Porter, Paul M. Joyce, David E. Orton - 1994 - 408 lehte
...figures; another is his love for Bishop Butler's remark in the Fifteen Sermons that "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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 lehte
...how 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 lehte
...bureau that were flooding American campuses by the 1950s. "Things and actions," wrote Bishop Butler, "are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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... | |
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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? 
