Should - Quotes
The religious reply to the moral sceptic`s question, `Why should I behave in such-and-such a way?` is simply `Because God requires it of you.` But this is merely a polite way of saying, `Because you`ll be punished if you don`t. [...] But a threat is never a logical justification for acting one way rather than another. If there exists a deity with the punitive vengefulness of the Judaeo-Christian variety, then it might be prudent to obey it, and thus avoid the flames of hell; but the threat of punishment is not a principled reason for obedience.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
I think everybody`s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken", and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn`t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Never follow anyone else`s path, unless you`re in the woods and you`re lost and you see a path; then, by all means, you should follow that path.
From the moment we are born we are presented with absolute facts rather than situated ones. We aren`t taught that distinctions such as young and old or healthy and unhealthy are social constructions and that their meaning depends on context. We are conditioned to learn about and see the world as a set of facts, such as 1 + 1 = 2. The world is far more subtle than such facts allow, and we should have learned that 1 + 1=2 only if we are using the base 10 number system, but that it equals 10 if the number system is base 2, and that 1 + 1 = 1 if we are adding one wad of chewing gum to one wad of chewing gum.
Artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.