Quotes About Common

The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.