Famous quotes containing the words type, utility and/or knives:
“But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“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 (1844–1900)
“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)