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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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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."
"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
"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."
"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
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"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
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