Utilitarian Quotes - Page 2

• Pisar el suelo de la Luna, palpar sus guijarros, saborear el pánico y el esplendor del acontecimiento, sentir en la boca del estómago la separación de Terra: todo esto forma la sensación más romántica que un explorador haya conocido jamás... esto es lo único que puedo decir sobre el asunto. Los resultados utilitarios no me interesan.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Luna, Espacio, Sentimientos

  N.Y. Times, 21 th Of July de 1969

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• I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

  John D'Agata

  Art, Thinking, Mind

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Yo la describiría [la amistad con el primer ministro griego Alexis Tsipras] como una amistad utilitaria. En aquel momento, su país se enfrentaba a la perspectiva de abandonar la zona euro y muchos griegos se sentían abandonados por Europa. En una situación así, me pareció apropiado presentarme como amigo de Grecia. Tenía que ver con la dignidad del país.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  País, Europa, Salir

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

  Azar Nafisi

  Attitude, Passion, Land

  Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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• You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of themselves first. And people have made that argument. But I just think we would be so much better off if we could care for distant others even a little bit more.

  Paul Bloom

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Entrevista con Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. 1 de febrero de 2016.

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• En el templo de la ciencia hay muchas mansiones, y ciertamente son diversos los que las habitan y los motivos que los han conducido hasta allí. Muchos se dedican a la ciencia por un sentimiento gozoso de poder intelectual superior; la ciencia es su propio deporte especial al que acuden en busca de experiencias vívidas y la satisfacción de la ambición; muchos otros se encuentran en el templo que han ofrecido los productos de sus cerebros en este altar con fines puramente utilitarios.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). "Ensayos científicos", p.11, Open Road Media.

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• For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.

  Allen W. Wood

  Done, Maximizing, Matter

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Emotional, Safe

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• Llamamos a la nuestra una era utilitaria, y no conocemos los usos de ninguna cosa. Hemos olvidado que el agua puede limpiar, que el fuego puede purificar y que la Tierra es madre de todos nosotros.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Mother, Fire

  Oscar Wilde Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). "Las obras completas de Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"", p.152, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Goal, Desire, Realization

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• [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

  Stars, Character, Science

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• 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

  Believe, Numbers, People

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• [Aldous Huxley] comparó el cerebro con una "válvula reductora". En la percepción ordinaria, los sentidos envían una avalancha abrumadora de información al cerebro, que éste filtra hasta un goteo que puede gestionar con el fin de sobrevivir en un mundo altamente competitivo. El hombre se ha vuelto tan racional, tan utilitario, que el goteo se vuelve más pálido y delgado. Es eficaz para la mera supervivencia, pero excluye la parte más maravillosa de la experiencia potencial del hombre sin que éste se dé cuenta. Estamos aislados de nuestro propio mundo.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Knowing, Perception

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• 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 on which Egoists refuse to admit the axiom of Rational Benevolence. If the Utilitarian has to answer the question, 'Why should I sacrifice my own happiness for the greater happiness of another?' it must surely be admissible to ask the Egoist 'Why should I sacrifice a present pleasure for a greater one in the future? Why should I concern myself about my own future feelings any more than about the feelings of other persons?'

  Henry Sidgwick

  Sacrifice, Psychology, Feelings

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• 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 empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Offering, Oxygen, Empires

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• 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 successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos…provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed—but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.

  Marva Dawn

  Kings, Successful, Opportunity

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• 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 absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Passion, Men

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Libro de Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• 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 movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Single Life

  Arthur Koestler (1952). "Flecha en el azul: una autobiografía".

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• 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] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  Aristotle

  Math, Skills, Egypt

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• En efecto, soy un utilitarista hedonista. He defendido el utilitarismo hedonista durante bastante tiempo.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Utilitarianism, Hedonistic

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Emotional, Fire

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• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  David Lodge

  Age, Modern, Cathedrals

  David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA

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• Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose is to serve society, however, the true purpose of sociology lies in its impracticality. It cannot become practical or else it loses its meaning. Perhaps we should learn a different kind of knowledge: the knowledge to question knowledge.

  Wang Jianwei

  Lying, Different, Purpose

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Writing, Firsts

  "Archivo de Star Wars: Entrevista a George Lucas 1999". Entrevista con Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. Septiembre de 1999.

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• Porque es debido a su asombro que los hombres, tanto ahora como al principio, comenzaron a filosofar... Perseguían la ciencia para conocer, y no para ningún fin utilitario.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle (982b10), later published in "The Basic Works of Aristotle" edited by Richard McKeon (p. 692), 1941.

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