"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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"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."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

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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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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

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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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