#commonly

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? ↗

— Robert Casey

#commonly #community #protected #who

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#called #commonly #cynicism #got #observation

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birds #breeds #commonly #existence #fall

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#commonly #interaction #language #only #side

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#calculation #commonly #distance #measured #result

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. ↗

— John Keegan

#childhood #commonly #education #had #help

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#assumed #books #commonly #condemns #end