Utilitarian View Quotes

Keeping you [alive] is no profit; losing you is no loss.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.