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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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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
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