F. H. Bradley Quotes

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

All things in their beeing are good for something.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The most useful is the greatest.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

Learn to be good for something.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?