He Ought Quotes
121 quotes by 98 authors
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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
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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
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas
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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
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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
— John Owen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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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
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He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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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
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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
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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
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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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