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«There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.»
«Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.»
«We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Education,
Freedom
| Keywords:
educated, free people, must not, ought, philosophers
«The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
behave, full, listened, listening, neighboring, neighbors, ought, stopped, values, well behaved
«The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.»
«Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
All That, know-all, known, ought
«There ought to be a room in every house to swear in»
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
in good order, ought, painters, put out, sing
«Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.»
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