“There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.” MindEndsActionGoalDifferencesResultsOughtFinalsSatisfactionSupremeContentmentOur ActionsPossessing Author:Rene Descartes
“Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.” MindMightGoalChristFiguresOughtMovedHistoricalHistorical Figure Book:Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.” IfsFirstsMayHas BeensRealSelfLife IsGoalPersonalityDevelopmentOughtEgoOrdinaryConsciousMurderRemainsSuicidePersonal DevelopmentRuinsRealizationRealisingCorpsesAbolishLife GoalKilling Yourself Author:Carl Jung
“The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.” PeopleWayWantFirstsWellsChildrenPersonsImportantSeemsAbleGoalGrowing UpBearsOughtStressRelationSatisfiedEncountersHardshipSatisfyingWorthwhileDesirableConstructiveEnriching Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.” BelieveImportantHomeI BelieveGoalSupportOughtJewSovereigntyGovernance Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'” ShouldStatesHomeGovernmentEnjoyGoalAbilityPoorLordSupportRichWrittenSubjectsOughtEconomicsProtectionLibertarianRichesInequalityProportionRemedyTaxationRevenue Author:Adam Smith
“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.” TryingLooksLastsGoalNumbersStepsOughtNegativePhilosophicalRegardClimbsMetaphysicsBackwardsLadders Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.” ThinkingWellsLooksMeanEndsHardEasyGoalPayAchieveHavensOughtBusyNot SureDistractionWorthwhilePicklesLife Well LivedLimes Author:Sebastian Faulks