Why spend ten dollars to buy one item that does two things, when for five dollars a piece I can sell you two items that each does one thing?

When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...

When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it...

[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to...

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...

Program your life the way you want it to be: don’t waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

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...

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...

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

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

[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.

When you’re angry, use your anger to build a fortress of forgiveness

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,...

Love and truth are two tools you can use to examine how reasonable or unreasonable your sentiments are

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...

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity