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Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need...

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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But aft...

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature ...

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She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web...

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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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Jeremy BenthamThe Principles of Morals and Legislation

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...

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Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the po...

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Octavio PazThe Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for...

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