#utility

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The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.


Vera Nazarian


#choices #free-will #futility #labyrinth #inspirational

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?


H. Rider Haggard


#foolishness #futility #humanity #intelligence #knowledge

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.


William H. Gass


#indolence #luxury #purpose #utility #life

...why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?


Arthur Findlay


#men

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?



Jarod Kintz


#deals #efficiency #function #funny #humor

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.


Confucius


#knowledge #religion #religion

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.


Haruki Murakami


#war #end

Na początku Bóg stworzył Ziemię i oglądał ją z wyżyn swojej kosmicznej samotności. I rzekł Pan: Ulepmy z gliny żywe stworzenia, aby glina mogła zobaczyć, co uczyniliśmy. I ulepił Bóg wszelkie zwierzęta, jakie żyją na Ziemi, a pośród nich i człowieka. Jedynie glina w postaci człowieka potrafiła mówić. Bóg pochylił się nisko, kiedy glina w postaci człowieka powstała, rozejrzała się dokoła i przemówiła. Człowiek zamrugał i grzecznie spytał: Jaki jest sens tego wszystkiego? - Czy wszystko musi mieć jakiś sens? - spytał Bóg. - Oczywiście - odpowiedział człowiek. - W takim razie pozostawiam tobie znalezienie sensu tego wszystkiego - powiedział Bóg. I odszedł.


Kurt Vonnegut


#niche

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.


Mortimer Adler


#based #consists #due #exchange #fair

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.


James W. Black


#answer #any #could #develop #ever