 | Ralph Barton Perry - Ethics - 1909 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 756 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - Ethics - 1909 - 290 pages
...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 - Book collectors - 1909 - 490 pages
...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 pages
...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 " All through the day, too, he found himself trying to account for what he found out-of-date and... | |
 | Joseph Warschauer - Bible - 1913 - 342 pages
...bringing forth fruit after its kind, good or evil. " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " said old Bishop Butler. That is a sober doctrine, as simple and withal as complex as life itself... | |
 | 1913 - 114 pages
...medical profession of the dangers of self-flattery and selfdelusion, "for things are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should you desire to be deceived." And he regretted that a spirit of graft and commercialism is the Gorgon's... | |
 | Francis Neilson - Diplomacy - 1915 - 410 pages
...British Empire. " Things and actions are what they are," said Bishop Butler, in a noble passage, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived? " The hoary method of war first and law after is being repeated in this present complication. When... | |
 | John Ira Riegel, John H. Jordan - 1917 - 312 pages
...all in Hebrew literature. IX "THE PLACE OF A SKULL" " Things are what they are, and the consequence of them will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" — BISHOP BUTLEB. With pathetic faith, the populace clung to the vain hope that even on the brink... | |
 | James Denney - Atonement - 1917 - 360 pages
...know how deep-seated is the impression that forgiveness is impossible. ' 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 do wrong is to do what cannot be made right ; it is to impair relations... | |
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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? 
