Ordinary Sense Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

• Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he… — Hermann Kolbe
• Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
• I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. — Diane Sawyer
• Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without… — Anthony Kennedy
• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this… — Terence McKenna
• AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. — Bill W.
• Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to… — E. M. Forster
• Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural… — Henry David Thoreau
• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
• Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. — Nicolas Malebranche
• We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that… — John Muir
• I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold… — Aleister Crowley
• Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. — Christopher Lasch
• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in… — Edvard Munch
• This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face… — Henry Miller
• The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they… — Sam Harris
• I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… — Werner Heisenberg
• Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the… — Joseph McCabe

Who Wrote These Ordinary Sense Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Ordinary Sense Quotes as follows:

• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Hermann Kolbe
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Thomas Huxley
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Diane Sawyer
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Anthony Kennedy
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Terence McKenna
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Bill W.
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by E. M. Forster
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Stephen Batchelor
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Nicolas Malebranche
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by John Muir
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Aleister Crowley
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Christopher Lasch
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Edvard Munch
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Henry Miller
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Sam Harris
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Werner Heisenberg
• 1 Ordinary Sense Quote by Joseph McCabe