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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is calculation applied to life. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is the genius of humanity. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common Sense is very uncommon. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. (Amiel Henri Frederic)
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