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Ought Quotes (page 31)

Doesn't your learning reveal to you that the reason why I please you and mean so much to you is because I am a kind of looking-glass for you, because there is something in me that answers you and understands you? Really, we ought all to be such looking-glasses to each other and answer and correspond to each other. Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
The silly ass had left the kitchen door open, and I hadn't gone two steps when his voice caught me squarely in the eardrum.'You will find Mr Wooster', he was saying to the substitue chappie, 'an extremely pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible'. Well, I mean to say. What! I suppose, strictly speaking, I ought to have charged in and ticked the blighter off properly in no uncertain voice. But I doubht... P. G. Wodehouse
Franz Kafka quote: "A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea..."
A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
Etty Hillesum quote: "Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he..."
Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. Etty Hillesum
Thomas Hardy quote: "We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. Thomas Hardy
A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticise it as if he comprehended it. The very fact of its unfamiliarity and mystery ought to set him thinking about the deeper causes that make people so different from himself, and that without merely assuming that they must be inferior to himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton
George Washington quote: "A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare..."
A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred. George Washington
Barack Obama quote: "Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with..."
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models. Barack Obama
In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would... Francis Schaeffer
Thomas Paine quote: "A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought..."
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. Thomas Paine
Leo Tolstoy quote: "They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox."
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. Leo Tolstoy
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. Isak Dinesen
Watch: (1) You do something nasty to me. (2) I hate you. (3) You find it uncomfortable to be hated. (4) You think how nice it would be if I didn't hate you. (5) You decide I ought not to hate you because hate is bad. (6) Good people don’t hate. (7) Because I hate you I am a bad person. (8) It is not what you did to me that makes me hate you, it is my own bad nature. I—not you—am the cause of my hating you. Joanna Russ
A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel, because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber. Friedrich Nietzsche
You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves. Jane Austen

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