A Quote by Sena Jeter Naslund

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Sena Jeter Naslund

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Beauty Enhanced Utility

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Sena Jeter Naslund
American - Writer
Born: June 28, 1942

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Max von Stephanitz

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Michael Faraday

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

Abraham Flexner

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

Frances Moore Lappé

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

James A. Garfield

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Julia Marlowe

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Thomas A. Edison

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.

Joan Robinson

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Al-Ghazali

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

William Vickrey

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.