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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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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
"Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."
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