He Ought Quotes

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,… — Ambrose Bierce
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to… — Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape… — N. Scott Momaday
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. — John Owen
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with… — Soren Kierkegaard
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what… — Charles Hodge
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a… — Tertullian
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. — Blaise Pascal
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is. — Meister Eckhart
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on… — Bridget of Sweden
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant… — James Freeman Clarke
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the… — Frederick William Robertson

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