Common Sense Philosophy Quotes

#1. Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.

Simon Critchley

#2. It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#3. Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Kent Hovind

#4. Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Mason Cooley

#5. One gets the sense that, for Deleuze, the cinema of the movement-image has been fully realized while that of the time-image is emergent. Comparatively speaking, there are few "pure" examples of films where direct images of time predominate. Mixed or hybrid examples are more common.

D. N. Rodowick

#6. The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#7. Do not be scared to do your good nonsense as it may seem to some people, out your good nonsense their is common sense ; that is my philosophy .

Osunsakin Adewale

#8. Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.

David Hume

#12. To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.

Indiana Lang

#13. It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

Aaron B. Powell

#14. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

#15. An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#16. But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

#17. After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

Felix Alba-Juez

#18. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. Never lose your sense of common sense.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

Duop Chak Wuol

#22. All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote ... While the backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.

Donald Tsang

#23. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable ...

George Orwell

#24. The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

Judah Freed

#25. Most people have sense but not common sense.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.

Anonymous

#27. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!

Mick Lexington

#28. Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

John Corrigan

#29. Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

Antonio Gramsci

#30. Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Liz Williams

#31. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Norman Mailer

#32. Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison

#33. My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Dolly Parton

#34. If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don't explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say "thank you" and smile; that was the purpose.

Travis Culliton

#35. Sophie found philosophy doubly exciting because she was able to follow all the ideas by using her own common sense - without having to remember everything she had learned at school. She decided that philosophy was not something you can learn; but perhaps you can learn to think philosophically.

Jostein Gaarder

#36. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

#37. In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Lin Yutang

#38. I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!

Jojo1980

#39. I asked about the pipe dreams and he said they were more than I could afford.

S.J. Cruz

#40. Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Amit Kalantri

#41. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

Jurgen Habermas