“Accounting must be interpreted on the basis of general language usage and common sense.”
Source: Expert Witnessing in Forensic Account (02) by Telpner, Zeph - Mostek, Michael [Hardcover (2002)]
“A rare person
that functions differently from the crowds might be more valuable
than common sense and common logic.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever — but time will prove that effort without discernment is futility in disguise.”
“I don’t know about you, but for me there is forever a
struggle between the rational side of myself and the side that is alert to glimpses or impressions of something otherworldly. And, of course, I know
there is no coherent argument to be had here. My rational self has all the weaponry, all the big guns – reason, science, common sense, normality – and all that far outweighs the side of me that only has suspicions and hints and signs of something else, something mysterious and quietly spoken. But, even still, it feels, under the circumstances, that to dismiss the existence of these things that live beyond our reasonable selves outright is, at best, ungenerous. Don’t you think? I mean, I don’t blindly succumb to these feelings, but still I remain watchful for that promise. This is how I have chosen to live my life – in uncertainty, and by doing so to be open to the
divine possibility of things, whether it exists or not. I believe this gives my life, and especially my work, meaning and potential and soul, too, beyond what the rational world has to offer.”
Source: Faith, Hope and Carnage
“Then I baptize you in the name of the Algorithm, the Infinite Scroll, and the Holy Feed.”
Source: The Church of Common Sense: Book I - The Spark
“Existence is mandatory. Meaning is optional.”
Source: The Church of Common Sense: Book I - The Spark
“May your likes be many, your screen time holy, and your battery eternal.”
Source: The Church of Common Sense: Book I - The Spark
“I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. "I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe--I just--"
"Liam, please," I begged. "You're tired. You're barely over being sick. Let's just... Can we just go back to the others?"
"I love you." He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. "I love you every second of everyday, and I don't understand why, or how to make it stop--"
He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.
"I know it's wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like I'm sick. I'm trying to be a good person, but I can't. I can't do this anymore.”
Source: Never Fade
“there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind
while some just live
silently
in the heart
crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die
and are reborn
when you smile again.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“When we come to be instructed by Philosophers, we must bring the old light of common sense along with us, and by it judge of the new light which the Philosopher communicates to us. But when we are required to put out the old light altogether, that we may follow the new, we have reason to be on our guard.”
Source: Essays In The Intellectual Powers Of Man: To Which Is Annexed An Analysis Of Aristotle Logic