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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Because we inhibit the same material world and manoeuvre with languages tied to common definitions, we talk to others in the assumption that they largely share our images and conceptions.
Thinking together is more important than thinking alike
A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.Alike-- Bill Walton
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
Common culture is in disrepute because many believe our Western tradition has promoted uniquely oppressive and imperialistic attitudes and practices. But it remains the case that no community can exist unless the people in it share important aspects of their lives in common.
In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
Reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.
What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.
To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
When Everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
No real knowledge is common.
We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.
Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.
Those who go along get along.-- Sam Snead
The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.
Similar things are drawn to each other.
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved ...
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.
All our differences and similarities are vast and rich - their interplay is the fabric of all relating. It's hard to invent rules out of such complexity; we improvise as we learn about each other.
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
Common sense isn't as common as its name implies
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
Grief has a ruthless commonality.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
Nothing unites humans like a common enemy.
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.
It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences.
The field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
As I travel around the country, I'm finding a common denominator - people are hurting and going through regardless of race and creed. The common denominators are people HURTING people. The cure also has a common denominator - people start HELPING people.
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Truth is communal.
While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.
We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Education forms the common mind.
Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
sameness, not difference, provokes our greatest anxiety
They had a great deal in common, Bowman a little defiantly said. What they had in common was more vital than similar interests
it was wordless understanding and accord. It was love, the furnace into which everything is dropped.
It's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
Bion insisted on the principle that The property of friends is common.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.
FOR, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, our most basic common link IS THAT WE ALL INHABIT this small planet. WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME AIR. We all cherish our children's future. AND WE ARE ALL MORTAL. - John F. Kennedy
The common enemy is the white man.
What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.
The common fund of experience is very deep.
The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes.
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
With sharing our common purpose we multiply and with keeping to ourselves we divide.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.
Opposites attract, but similarities bind.
He dropped his pile of papers onto the desk and indicated the sheet on top. "Here is the common I nominate in all the fires, Carl." "You what?" "The common I nominate." "Common denominator, Assad. A compound noun. What common denominator?
Human nature is all alike.
Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.
Same seeks same; we search out the familiar.