Quotes of: Common-mind Keyword

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

Amit Kalantri

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

Life

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Martin Jacques

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. A...

The Four Loves

Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature th...

The Interpretation of Dreams

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the stud...

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in...

Eragon

Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face on the subject-object question and the mindmatter question; they all reject the dualism that arbitrarily and ...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear. I think that even the most common-minded person in the land has inner thoughts and feelings which no one can sha...

My Brilliant Career

For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easi...

Sister

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the ...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

French

It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems." Hank the Cowdog

The Case of the Secret Weapon

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

A Dictionary of Thought

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader