Utilitarian Quotes

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 and utilitarian contact. - Jean Piaget

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 prevent its exercise. - Peter Singer

I think the art ordinance definitely needs to be amended. We don't need to put art in utilitarian facilities like storm water treatment facilities or jails. It's ludicrous. - Brian Blair

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

He's very utilitarian and can play in very many places. He basically coordinates the midfield. - Gary Trittipoe

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. - Ama Ata Aidoo

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

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 the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life. - Savitri Devi

Certainly I never write for utilitarian reasons - to help others understand issues, to improve society and so on. I regard those as fatuous pretexts. Let us keep social work out of the theatre. - Howard Barker

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. - Moby