I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment endowed with senses memories emotions thoughts and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

These days our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending escalating war and violence.

It was quite a European war until 1917 when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Popular opinions on subjects not palpable to sense are often true but seldom or never the whole truth.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

All truth in the long run is only common sense clarified.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust for me are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.