Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom..

Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in ….

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction..

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful..