#common

If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#age

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#around #bring #characters #common #common man

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#commonly #difficult #effective #honourable #less

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#being #commons #enjoys #help #house

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies. ↗

— Chad Lowe

#before #big #common #even #get

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#asked #came #come #commons #doing

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#any #common #desirable #goods #human

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. ↗

— John Masefield

#common sense #few #mixture #poetry #sense

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#always #anyone #anything #butcher #common