89 Quotes About Utility

  • Author William H. Gass
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    It 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.

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  • Author John Stuart Mill
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    A utilitarian who believes in the perfect goodness and wisdom of God, necessarily believes that whatever God has thought fit to reveal on the subject of morals, must fulfil the requirements of utility in a supreme degree.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.

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  • Author Theodore Dalrymple
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    [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.

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