Quotes about Ought

The outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Reason, therefore, demonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but that it is our own business to use them in this way or the opposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator of the manner in which we ought to meet those events that come from without. 6.

That we ought to make a great difference between the acts of the understanding and those of the will: that the first were comparatively of little value, and the others, all. That our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.

For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?

God is "all in all." He therefore is, or ought to be, the only supreme, absolute object of our thoughts and desires; other things are from and for him only.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

A lot of people who are marketing to girls are going to where they are, not to where they ought to be.