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
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water… — Oscar Wilde 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
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and… — Edmund Snow Carpenter 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
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
“These shirts are perfectly serviceable.” I rolled my eyes. “Serviceable? Anyan, I get it that you’re utilitarian. If we were in the… — Nicole Peeler 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
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick 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
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
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
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me,… — Kara Swisher 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think New York style is unique because there's something resourceful about it. Utilitarian. Whereas in Los Angeles, I find people make… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of being utilitarian. My dream is to edit down my wardrobe and be very Japanese, where you… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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