Common Sense

Famous quotes containing the words common sense, common and/or sense:

“My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought—with these I deal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)