useful

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
016ff9a	The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.	worship magistrate roman-empire useful organized-religion rome	Edward Gibbon
ff34a6d	There are no wrong decisions -- only different ones.	is-right most-of-the-time useful	Libba Bray
b2fd717	Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.	life useful	Susanna Clarke
df1ac72	The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.	mind useful	Virginia Woolf
0065d00	I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.	humanity ethical-system virulent-god educational-system confucianism useful monotheism judaism disaster harm islam	Gore Vidal
7411972	Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.	future whatif useful what-if	Brian Jacques
3799a14	"Now don't run away." "I'm not. I learned to see beyond the soles of these shoes. I learned that behind this wretched life we lead there is a great ideal, a great hope. I learned that each individual life should be guided by that hope and by that ideal. And people who don't feel that must have died before they were born." He smiled and added, "Those aren't my words. It's something I heard someone else say years ago." "In your view ,then, I belong to the group who died before they were born?" "No, you belong to another group, the ones who haven't yet been born." "Aren't you forgetting about all my experience of life?" "Not at all, but experience is only worth anything when it's useful to other people, and you're not useful to anyone."	useful ideals	José Saramago
d16d95c	It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.	pondering useful practicality self-deception	John Steinbeck
908e276	"Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all." I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . ." --	few useful limit sorry self-pity little self tears dying	Mitch Albom
640ecdb	Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.	emotion ancestors below threatened useful patterns pattern civilization use belief threaten	Roger Scruton

016ff9a

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

worship magistrate roman-empire useful organized-religion rome

Edward Gibbon

ff34a6d

There are no wrong decisions -- only different ones.

is-right most-of-the-time useful

Libba Bray

b2fd717

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

life useful

Susanna Clarke

df1ac72

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.

mind useful

Virginia Woolf

0065d00

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

humanity ethical-system virulent-god educational-system confucianism useful monotheism judaism disaster harm islam

Gore Vidal

7411972

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

future whatif useful what-if

Brian Jacques

3799a14

"Now don't run away." "I'm not. I learned to see beyond the soles of these shoes. I learned that behind this wretched life we lead there is a great ideal, a great hope. I learned that each individual life should be guided by that hope and by that ideal. And people who don't feel that must have died before they were born." He smiled and added, "Those aren't my words. It's something I heard someone else say years ago." "In your view ,then, I belong to the group who died before they were born?" "No, you belong to another group, the ones who haven't yet been born." "Aren't you forgetting about all my experience of life?" "Not at all, but experience is only worth anything when it's useful to other people, and you're not useful to anyone."

useful ideals

José Saramago

d16d95c

It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.

pondering useful practicality self-deception

John Steinbeck

908e276

"Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all." I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . ." --

few useful limit sorry self-pity little self tears dying

Mitch Albom

640ecdb

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

emotion ancestors below threatened useful patterns pattern civilization use belief threaten

Roger Scruton