Day: November 1, 2007

Common sense is the least common of the senses

Xavi C wonders if the phrase is Jaume Balmes‘s. Mark Twain is often blamed for the English version, but Allan Cunningham in Paul Jones (1826, via GBS) has a peasant observe that “common sense is the rarest sense of a'” and Descartes writes at the beginning of his Methóde that “Le bon sens est la…