"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."

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Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press

Giambattista Vico

#Reflection Quotes #Race Quotes #Class Quotes

“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
“Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.”
“If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.”

Source : "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.
“I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“I've never tried to manipulate my image.”
“This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris
“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “All That I Am”, p.111, Penguin UK
“Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.”

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