The End of Thought as We Know It

Image by swanksalot via FlickrIf I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. – Frederick the Great




Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Every man is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. – Bertrand Russell



Common sense is the collection of prejudices by the age of eighteen. – Albert Einstein



Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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