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Common sense
is calculation applied to life.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher,
Poet, Critic
Common sense
is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience
and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher,
Poet, Critic
The philosophy
of one century is the common sense of the next.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
Common-sense
is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been
deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been
kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different
sources: items that have survived from religion, items of
empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items
culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is
supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach
itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon
as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all
items become questionable and the whole function of
common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a
category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit
of inquiry, from philosophy.
-- John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic
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Common sense
is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things
as they ought to be done.
-- Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist,
Lecturer
Common sense
is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of
it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
The voice of
the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by
all that is.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
Common sense
always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells
you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before
you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the
Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game
if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in
the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the
little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in
addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding
up.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
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