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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."
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"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."
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"When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word."
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"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
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"In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them."
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"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."
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"It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless."
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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
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