Common sense isn't.
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| I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii. ~ |
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| I can perform absurd work, choose the creative attitude rather than another. But an absurd attitude, if it is to remain so, must remain aware of its gratuitousness. So it is with the work of art. If the commandments of the absurd are not respected, if the work does not illustrate divorce and revolt, if it sacrifices to illusions and arouses hope, it ceases to be gratuitous. I can no longer detach myself from it. My life may find a meaning in it, but that is trifling. It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Absurd Creation, Philosophy and Fiction, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| They who have drunk beer ... fall on their backs ... for they who get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body ... it is only those who get drunk on beer who fall on their backs and lie with their faces upwards. |
| ~Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) ~ |
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| He is never less at leisure than when at leisure. |
| ~ Cicero, De Officiis. iii. 1. ~ |
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| In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new budget message explained that, because of unforeseen circumstances, the promise of the previous year had not been met, but next year things would be better; next year there would be a balanced budget…. The 1938 congressional elections were uncomfortably near at hand…. it was announced that the President would deliver a Fireside Chat. In it our startled ears caught the opening accents of a grand new liturgy. Spending would be resumed, but let not the heart be troubled. Spending was no longer the rock of unsound finance on which so many liberal governments had been wrecked; it was not danger, but security. Debt, if owed to ourselves, was not debt but investment. |
| ~ BRUCE BARTON, “A Businessman’s Doubts on Government Spending,” Fortune, February 1943, p. 136. ~ |
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| Chapter 29 : travel honestly 01 Do not prevent people from crossing the river, 02 if You stride freely in the ferry. 03 When You are given an oar in the midst of the deep, 04 bend your arms and take it. 05 It is no crime in the hand of the god, 06 {If the sailor does not welcome You.} 07 Do not make yourself a ferry on the river, 08 and then labour to seek its fare. 09 Take the fare from him who is wealthy, 10 and let pass him who is poor. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| Nobody loves life like an old man. |
| ~ Sophocles, Acrisius. Frag. 63. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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