“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'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things… — George Lucas 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
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
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
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol 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
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls 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
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard… — Bertrand Russell 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 dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller 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
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
I've always dressed the same. I've never made a fashion mistake. I've always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image