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“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

Mankind Events Ought Ordinary Madness Philosopher Stupidity Historian Wickedness Imbeciles

Author:David Hume

“We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.”

People Thinking Way Looks Clear Ought Ordinary Concern Argument Topics Unjust

Author:Plato

“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.”

“Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.”

Believe Values I Believe Pay Half Ought Amount Citizens Taxes Ordinary Paid Compare Proportion Wealthy Estates Millionaire Ordinary Citizens

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”

Ideas States Reason Law Justice Cases Sacrifice Ought Authority Ordinary Selling All Time Goods Farmers Urgent Utility Hinder

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.”

Thinking Happens Fall Ought Highest Ordinary Shots Weight Snow Tension Slips Fulfilled Leafs Archer Bamboo

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.”

Share Duty Ought Benefits Ordinary Fairs Workers Prosperity Producers Consumers Evident Fair Share

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.”

Firsts Life Is Courses Pleasure Views Theory Ought Bed Ordinary Noble Damn Kitchen Sentiments Tested Detached Ordinary Life

Author:Charles Simic

“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”

People Should Enough Actors Acting Stage Ought Ordinary Theatre Daily Life Larger Than Life

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.”

Years Littles Said Past Bits My Own Mistake Ought Ten Little Bit Ordinary Years Ago Trifles Shiver

Book:Can You Forgive Her?

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

“That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”

Ifs Giving Should Humans Soul Feelings Home Would Be Purpose Human Beings Kindness Ought Ordinary Capacity Vulnerable Ease Odd Complacency Ordinary Life

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.”

Said Sometimes Depends Ought Ordinary Accidents Boat Islands Shore Robins

Author:A. A. Milne