 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?  Sermons - Page 110by Joseph Butler - 1827 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1891 - 208 pages
...blinding one's eyes to the fact. " Things," said Bishop Butler, " are what they are, and consequences will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Unless the union is an agreeable one to all parties, or unless secession is allowed, a conflict... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...this sentence, splendide rerax, of Butler's : — ' Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we wish to be deceived? ' To take in and digest such a sentence as that is an education in moral and intellectual... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1893 - 406 pages
...spirit of Butler's memorable 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." If he argued, with a force which few men rivalled, against agnosticism and materialism, it was not... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers. 12. Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived ? 13. Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure, Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright ; Sow sunbeams... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1895 - 352 pages
...reason oblige me to go. " Things are what they are," as Bishop Butler says, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Let us face facts, seeking only to know what they are, and, as far as we can, what they really... | |
 | William Caldwell - 1896 - 568 pages
...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 ? ' Yet men do deceive themselves every day." 1 Say what one will about Schopenhauer, he seems, after... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...taken as the key to his own intellectual position. " 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," so runs his comment, " is surely the right and salutary maxim... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pages
...but keeps under foot fancy, imagination, and feeling. " Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived ? " Butler never desired to be deceived, however gloomy and awful reality might be. There was little... | |
 | 1896 - 518 pages
...but to state things as he finds them." "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?" "For, after all, that which is true must be admitted, though it should show us the shortness of our... | |
 | William Caldwell - 1896 - 560 pages
...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 ? ' Yet men do deceive themselves every day." * Say what one will about Schopenhauer, he seems, after... | |
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