The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
John Stuart MillTags: pain ethics philosophy pleasure greatest-happiness-principle moral-philosophy utilitarianism utility
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
Victor HugoRemember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John SteinbeckTags: beauty utility form-over-function
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Umberto EcoTags: meaning utility order method wittgenstein
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
Ayn RandTags: progress purpose technology utility ingenuity
Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
Jack GardnerTags: art utility perfection decoration
[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.
Theodore DalrympleIt is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.
William H. GassTags: purpose fiction utility indolence luxury
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Tags: art admiration utility uselessness
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