A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
We can't, you know, use our military to make sure the planet doesn't get warmer. And so that kind of leadership, of being able to bring people together, to apply practical commonsense solutions based on facts, based on science, based on what works you know, that's been the approach I have taken consistently as a public servant. That's the kind of style that I think we need in the presidency right now.
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the "if" is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the commonsense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.
The base of our party is commonsense conservatives. If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
