Resistance has finally given way to common sense,
Common sense needs constant reappraisal.
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
We're going to look at it from a less theoretical standpoint and more from a common sense, everyday type of view. We're going to mix both views.
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.
What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.