I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.
And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.