“we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as… — Donny Deutsch Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes… — Moby Copy Share Image
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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