Utilitarian Quotes

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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. — Irving Babbitt
I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is. — Jo Brand
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being… — Charles Baudelaire
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a… — Bertrand Russell
[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
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
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that… — Henry Sidgwick
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the… — Ferdinand von Mueller
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as… — Marva Dawn
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]… — Aristotle
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic… — Jonathan Kozol
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are… — Wyndham Lewis
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward… — Nicholas G. Carr
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in… — Savitri Devi
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that… — Thomas Cole
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical… — Jean Piaget

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