Common sense is calculation applied to life.
More Quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel:
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.Henri Frederic Amiel
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
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