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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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"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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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
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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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"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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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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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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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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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."
Common sense
"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."
Experience
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
Society
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
Belief
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
Power
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Wrong
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
Belief
"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."
Experience
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
Society
"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."
Belief
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