Common sense isn't.
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| How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they? |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828. ~ |
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| In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap xi. ~ |
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| By beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and restored to the world of sense. |
| ~ -Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XVIII. J. C. Friedrich von Schiller ~ |
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| What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior? |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Laws for Creations. ~ |
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| "So long and thanks for all the fish" - departing dolphins. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered as art, one's life is art. I am not interested in the physical aspect of art. I simply meditate and train my mind. And as far as external appearance is concerned, nature in its pristine form is also art. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, July 11, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| The voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natural enjoyment, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of lifewhat has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may cultivate his mind,Mmay elevate his thoughts,Mthese I believe are the established phrasesbut will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 17, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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