“we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.” — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
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
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
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls 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
[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 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
The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and… — Thomas Cole 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
The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real… — Horace Dediu Copy Share Image
The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge… — Marie-Louise von Franz 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
As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult… — Savitri Devi 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
“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 am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. — Dave Eggers 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
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle 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
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. — Torbjorn Tannsjo 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
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
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'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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