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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"Common sense is not so common."
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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
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"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
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"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Dream
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
Friendship
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
Life
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
Religion
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