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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense


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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
THOMAS PAINE The world is in need of less religion and more common sense
LLEWELYN POWYS Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
JOHANN G. SEUME Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES A person who has intelligence understands that the knowledge can only be acquired, not common sense ...
ANUJ SOMANY Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in...
PAUL MCCARTNEY Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
DAVID DEUTSCH Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which no...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural....
BLAISE PASCAL Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eig...
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AHMED SIDDIQUI Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and ...
SIR WILLIAM DRAPER Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
JOSH BILLINGS If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...
HANS KüNG This latest complaint filed by a group of left-leaning clergy amounts to nothing more than a campaig...
GILES HUDSON a notable victory for reason and common sense over intolerance and extremism.
PAT COX Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into po...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people...
TIMOTHY MCDONALD The more we can smell, taste, touch, see, and hear, then the more common sense we have.
MICHAEL BOAG The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders
LAO TZU Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
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CATHARINE BEECHER There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
J.I. PACKER After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Let nothing override common sense.
MUHAMMED HAIDER Each situation can be different, depending on where you are. Objective rules are less important than...
DAVID BATES I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT We can essentially say that this organism, which some people thought could never be beaten, can now ...
DANIEL HASSETT Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...
W. E. B. DU BOIS Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
JOHN ADAMS When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in...
BARON D'HOLBACH Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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MARTIN GARDNER What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...
STEVEN PINKER The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you ...
ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH and nothing can be more captivating than the waves hitting the shore
SHIVANGI LAVANIYA Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as ...
EDWARD ABBEY Shared values and common interests - much more can be built on these than on gratitude alone.
HORST KOEHLER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD The current anti-doping rules lack any notion of common sense. ... He had a well-documented reason f...
HOWARD JACOBS I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common s...
SUZY KASSEM A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
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AUSTIN FARRAR If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER ... [E]xperience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity an...
JAMES MADISON If only common sense were more common.
ALBERT EINSTEIN There may be more than just the common concept that the reason a person gets fat is because they eat...
DR. RICHARD JOHNSON Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
AN WANG Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
PALOMA PICASSO Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA Use common sense. You can have a great time and be safe at the same time.
LORI REYNERSON Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
LESZCZYNSKI STANISLAUS ("STANISLAUS I") It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, wh...
HASSE JERNER Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty,...
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WILLIAM SHENSTONE There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend i...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of p...
SIMONE WEIL Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stu...
ODIN ZEUS MCGAFFER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the cur...
NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
JAMES PATTERSON Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minute...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
STUART CHASE Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
ASTRID LINDGREN Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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JAMES MADISON My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, n...
DALAI LAMA Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.
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