Communis Quotes & Sayings

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. — Thornton Wilder

Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles. — Rona Barrett

Hey, I'll have you know that with recent 3D imaging, Ichthyosaurus communis is more alive than ever!"
"Talk like the Discovery Channel all you want, but a book of fossils and a tub of plaster does not an orgy make. — Gina Damico

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. — Zach Braff

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he'd never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life. — Cindi Madsen

There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time. — Haskell Wexler

When something becomes obvious to you," he said, "you immediately think surely someone else is doing this. — Michael Lewis

Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment. — Hannah

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me. — Michael O'Leary

There is no problem that is not actually a gift. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry. — Ann Romney

The sensus communis plays no part in Kant - not even in the logical sense. What Kant treats in the transcendental doctrine of judgment - i.e., the doctrine of schematism and the principles - no longer has anything to do with the sensus communis.57 For here we are concerned with concepts that are supposed to refer to their objects a priori, and not with the subsumption of the particular under the universal. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets ... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."
["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."] — Juvenal

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The truly original artist invents his own signs. — Henri Matisse