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“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”

Should May Use Able Order Sides Practice Cases Ought Opposites Solve Arguing Reasoning Unfair

Author:Aristotle

“Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.”

Country Ought Opposites Ireland Delightful

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.”

“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.”

Men Long Different Law Order Interest Attention Ought Opposites Regulation Deceiving Commerce Businessman Adopted Suspicious Proposal Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.”

Able Sex Ought Tests Opposites Gender Competence

Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes

Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes

“I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.”

Years Wells Has Beens Answers Four Ought Periods Civilization Speech Hundred Argument Opposites Claims Convince Freedom Of Thought

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up”

Trying Talking Ought Weak Opposites Heat Cracks Punk Closest Synonym

Author:Mike Shinoda

“You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage yourself – either through some genetic inheritance or because you’d learnt from example? But it doesn’t seem to work like that. So perhaps you need the opposite example – to see mistakes in order not to make them yourself. Except this would mean that the best way for parents to ensure their children have happy marriages would be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what’s the answer?”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Mean Children Seems Would Be Order Parent Answers Mistake Example Ought Opposites Average Unhappy Best Way Inheritance Happy Marriage

Author:Julian Barnes

“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 be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.”

“Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”

Reason Done Law Nature Ought Highest Opposites Command

Book:Cicero

Source: Cicero