{"quotes":[{"text":"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["morality","usefulness"],"id":6345,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?","author":"John Bruna","tags":["attention","benefit","helpfulness","intention","mindfulness","motivation","sacred","today","usefulness"],"id":8821,"author_id":"John+Bruna"},{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","fun-filled","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","joyful","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","use","useful","usefulness","wisdom","wisdom","young-age","young-generation","younger","youth","youthful","youthfulness"],"id":25321,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["falsehood","goal","guru","honesty","humility","intellectuals","meaning","practicality","practicality-for-intellectuals","pretentiousness","profound","purpose","sage","truth","usefulness","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":48001,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["blossom","business","businesses","careers","college","decisions","degree","economy","education","environment","fields","industries","industry","jobs","philosopher","philosophy","purpose","relevance","school","society","studies","together","tree","trunk","university","usefulness","work","working"],"id":49959,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.","author":"J. Cornell Michel","tags":["apocalypse","apocalyptic","fear","fearful","important","respect","somebody","someone","use","useful","usefulness","zombie","zombie-apocalypse","zombies","zompoc"],"id":97041,"author_id":"J.+Cornell+Michel"},{"text":"Make sure that you are a part of the solution not of the problem.","author":"عبد الكريم بكار","tags":["problem","solutions","try","try-again","usefulness"],"id":100610,"author_id":"%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85+%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"},{"text":"People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["being","cat","cats","deciding","decision","decisions","human","immune","immunity","important","importantly","mule","mules","nothing","skill","skilled","skillful","stubborn","stubbornness","training","use","usefulness","uselessness","want","wants","whatever"],"id":101930,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.","author":"Viktor E. Frankl","tags":["dignity","existentialism","human-dignity","meaning","nihilism","usefulness"],"id":152274,"author_id":"Viktor+E.+Frankl"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}