#ought

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#away #brought #current #events #passing

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#because #been #even #into #like

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #dyed #habitual #mind #soul

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#life #make #our #thoughts #universe

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship #general #made #man #ought

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#agreement #barren #co-operation #discovery #fun

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #educated #geologist #grew #here

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better future #class #cooperation #creation #democrats

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i