Quote by Edwin Way Teale

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

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is th

Summary

This quote suggests that utility, or basic function, alone is not sufficient, as beauty and aesthetic value enhance the experience. Comparing telephone wires to spider webs, it implies that while telephone wires might serve their purpose efficiently, they lack the intricate beauty and delicacy of spider webs. It suggests that focusing solely on utility neglects the value that beauty and aesthetics can bring to our lives and surroundings.

Topics

Beauty

By Edwin Way Teale

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Ernest Hemingway

Rules Writing

Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this

Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until he senses the great weight of responsibility for himself, I must utter my belief in the divine inspiration of the founding fathers.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of medioc

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Proverbial Wisdom

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benef

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Benefits

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that the

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Pleasure

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience t

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Experience

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are bei

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

Teacher

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remai

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Martin Heidegger

Time

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow g

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Work

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wi

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Things Little Things

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Best