“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
"On the Study of Biology" (1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=All+truth,+in+the+long+run,+is+only+common+sense+clarified.+huxley+On+the+Study+of+Biology&source=bl&ots=87sGwjauQT&sig=pEmWoYQoN8HUVIVU6WSrnAAM8Dc&hl=en&ei=hFcnStrlM5H0tQPG-NBH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2
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Thomas Henry Huxley 127
English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895Related quotes
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 23-25
Context: The Adlerians, in the name of “individual psychology,” take the side of society against the individual. … Adler’s later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. “Our science … is based on common sense.” Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense…”
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
“They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
Source: The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. IV
“Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself.”
The Shared Patio (2005)
Context: Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself. It is actually really hard to write something that will make a terminally ill person feel better. And Positive has rules, you can't just lift your guidance from the Bible or a book about Zen; they want original material. So far none of my submissions have gotten in, but I'm getting closer.
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
