Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
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And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don’t. And if that’s his answer, then he won’t have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which ‘external’ things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies…. They tell us nothing about entities in their Being.
Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
