“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.” IfsThinkingPersonsIdeasStatesOrderLosesNaturalAnimalOughtLimitsPlantSizeNo IdeaConsumerismSpoiledOverconsumption Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle
“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldHumansKindHandsAnimalMoralDesignOughtSpeciesPhilosopherStableHuman SocietyHuman Species Author:Frans de Waal
“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.” MeanTwoEyeOpportunityGamesSportsHoursPleasureAnimalBrainMoralOughtTaxesTasksWornToilRelaxationSimplestLimbsDiversionArtisansDaily Tasks Author:Horace Greeley
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.” PeopleMenTryingBodyPainScienceReligionAnswersAnimalDesignOughtSorrowBehaviorConcernCellsFasterBehaveTelling The TruthContrastAirplaneQuestsMoleculesInsulin Author:Warren Weaver
“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.” MayLittlesStatesInterestPleasureAnimalPartyExistenceTakenObjectsOughtLowsConcernTradeMereEnvironmentalCoffeeFancyAgreementTemporaryContractsReverenceSustainabilityPartnershipGrossOccasionalTobaccoSubordinatesPeppersSubservient Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” MenLifeMotivationalDifferencesAnimalHistoryLaughingHuman NatureOughtLaughterPetMiscellaneousHumans And Animals Author:William Hazlitt
“The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.” FeelsFirstsHumansLittlesPleasureAnimalOughtHatredAimResponsePleasantDislikeDisgustingHatefulPupilsHuman AnimalAim Of EducationLike And Dislike Author:Aristotle
“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.” ThinkingWantHumansIndividualAnimalDealsModernOughtStandardsInstitutionsNotionGrossFarmingInterference Author:Peter Singer
“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.” IfsWorldSelfFactsTurnsStrongNaturalAnimalViewsProduceCommunicationOughtEvolutionDegreesFundamentalsFavorsNervousSpotsDeceptionMotiveUnconsciousSubtleDeceitBetrayAccurateConventionalSelf KnowledgeSelectionNaiveSelectSelf DeceptionNatural SelectionNervous SystemRendering Author:Robert Trivers
“If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What we're starting to see is the implementation of that type of strategy.” IfsMeanAnimalTypeOughtStrategyStartingAtrocitiesImplementationAbusers Author:Jerry Vlasak
“Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.” WorldHumansLyingOrderSinAnimalEffortShareThis WorldPlanetsOughtResourcesConcernLeavingSecurePleasantEndeavorAfterlifeUnbelievableUnlikelyOur PlanetDescendants Author:Annie Laurie Gaylor