Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Things And Actions

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?

-- Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752), English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, Human Nature and Other Sermons: "Sermon VII"; as quoted in Matthew Arnold's St. Paul and Protestantism

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