Famous quotes containing the word common:
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
“The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motionthe earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egyptboth with the common motion and with their own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
—Giambattista Vico (16881744)
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