At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good....… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life. — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and… — Jean-Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Subtle brain differences often cause people like me to respond differently—strangely even—to common life situations. Most of us have a hard time… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living… — Gary W. Keller Copy Share Image
“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to… — Violette Nakhjavani Copy Share Image
“The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Just as summer-killed meat draws flies, so the court draws spurious sages, philosophists, and acosmists who remain there as long as their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
