— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, livro The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Fonte: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
— Clive James Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist 1939 - 2019
— David Deutsch, livro The Fabric of Reality
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
— William Thomson British physicist and engineer 1824 - 1907
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
— Alexander Rosenberg American philosopher 1946
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Contexto: There is, however, a much more convincing argument that needs to be put on the table before we really begin turning common sense upside down. It is the overwhelming reason to prefer science to ordinary beliefs, common sense, and direct experience. Science is just common sense continually improving itself, rebuilding itself, until it is no longer recognizable as common sense. It is easy to miss this fact about science without studying a lot of history of science—and not the stories about science, but the succession of actual scientific theories and how common sense was both their mother and their midwife.
— William O. Douglas Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1898 - 1980
Writing for the court, Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43 (1957)
Judicial opinions
— Lawrence Lessig, livro Cultura Livre
Free Culture (2004)
Contexto: A simple idea blinds us, and under the cover of darkness, much happens that most of us would reject if any of us looked. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. Blindness becomes our common sense. And the challenge for anyone who would reclaim the right to cultivate our culture is to find a way to make this common sense open its eyes.
So far, common sense sleeps. There is no revolt. Common sense does not yet see what there could be to revolt about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
— Jonathan Edwards, livro The Freedom of the Will
The Freedom of the Will (1754).
— Joycelyn Elders American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States 1933
On politicians who promote abstinence-only education
"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2007-06-04, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html,
Abstinence education
— William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910
— Peter Mere Latham English physician and educator 1789 - 1875
Book II, p. 389.
Collected Works
— Edward B. Titchener American psychologist 1867 - 1927
Edward B. Titchener, Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena (1972), p. 48
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
— Jon Krakauer American outdoors writer and journalist 1954
Fonte: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
— James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836
