Common sense isn't.
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| As many men, so many minds; every one his own way. |
| ~ Terence, Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 4, 14. (454.) ~ |
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| We have abolished sin by medicalizing it. |
| ~Charles Sykes, The New York Times ~ |
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| "Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day. "It's long," said the Knight, "but it's very, _very_ beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it---either it brings the _tears_ into their eyes, or else---" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know..." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter viii ~ |
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| Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore. |
| ~ LIVY, book 44, chapter 22.—Livy, trans. Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161 (1951). Lucius Aemilius Paulus is addressing the people at a public meeting. President Franklin Roosevelt attacked armchair generals by citing this and preceding passages at his press conference, March 17, 1942: “Being of an historical turn of mind, [I figured] that probably some poor devil had gone through this process of annoyance in past years, some previous time in history, so I went quite far back and I found [Lucius Aemilius] … it sounds as if it were written in 1942.”—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, p. 166 (1950). ~ |
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| Let us examine what "I" or "self" is. What is definite is that it does not exist independently of our body and mind. And out of the two, the body and mind, it is clear that the body cannot be seen as this "self." Feelings are also not the self because there is a "feeler" and a feeling. Also, the way we naturally perceive ourselves, the way the sense of "self" arises, is that there is something like the agent or the subject, which experiences and perceives. So to our naive, natural mind, everything appears as if it has an independent, solid, objective entity or objective status. However, what is very clear is that when we begin to search, they disintegrate and disappear and they are unfindable. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, December 15, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267. ~ |
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| [H]is authority is made to weigh nothing, or outweigh everything, according to the scale in which it is put. |
| ~ Letter to Joseph C. Cabell, March 19, 1829 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 34) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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