What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.
To do something very common, in my own way.
One should use common words to say uncommon things
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.
Nothing is so common as the desire to be remarkable.
The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, ...
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...
When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a ti...
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress eac...
Physics, my friend, is a narrow path drawn across a gulf that the human imagination cannot grasp. It is a set of answers to certain questions that we put to the world, and the world supplies the answers on the condition that we will not then ask it o...
To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle...
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral valu...
All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence l...
