“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.” PeopleGivingMeanArtRealityReligionCommonEmotionalExerciseSatisfactionMythTinyCommon SenseRevelationsMysticismStrongestZeroSpheresTrance Author:E. O. Wilson
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.” ReasonReligionCommonAtheismAtheistContraryCommon SenseClergy Author:Voltaire
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.” CountryReligionLiteratureNationsChurchChristianitySawsHeardDegreesCommon SenseBelovedPersecutionClergy Author:Jonathan Swift