Quotes About Commonest

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

If things went according to the death notices, ... the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels without one's having been aware of it. Pure love, which in reality is to be found so seldom, shines on all sides in death, and is the commonest thing of all.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright lights of acclaim and glory, in a swirl of organ music.

Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact.

The temptation to tell a Chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Pride is the oldest and commonest of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

One of the commonest symptoms of wealth today is destructive neurosis; in his century it was tranquil boredom