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Ought Quotes (page 41)

Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry."
Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also. Thus he believed that children were indeed the kingdom of heaven, but nevertheless ought to be obedient to the kingdom of earth.... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ken Follet quote: "Even lords ought to follow the customs."
Even lords ought to follow the customs. Ken Follet
I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles. Grover Cleveland
Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. Homer
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil,..."
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. Harriet Beecher Stowe
His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes; he was unable to let a good idea drop, and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse. The comment had some truth in it, in that the heroine did have an equine cast of feature, but he made it too often, and with too little variation; however, she was willing to forgive him, in view of his evident tolerance of her social errors, such as an inability to say... Margaret Drabble
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Blaise Pascal quote: "Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything,..."
Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal
John Adams quote: "You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves..."
You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves to each other. John Adams
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . . Charles Dickens
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love. Marguerite Duras
But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. C. S. Lewis
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves. Dorothy L. Sayers
And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this... J. K. Rowling

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