Charles Churchill Quotes

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Common sense is not so common.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.