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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
David Deutsch
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
Djuna Barnes
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
William Least Heat-Moon
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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Antoni Tàpies
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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
John Polkinghorne
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
Edward Dowden
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I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley Hall
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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Erica Jong
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For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
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The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.
Flann O'Brien
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Sissela Bok
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The same principles which at first view lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
Vladimir Nabokov
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