DAY 299

Common Sense

Thomas Paine · 1776
Common Sense
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

How to stand against the authority believed to be natural?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first opened this slender pamphlet, my heart swelled at the scathing sentences that shatter the contradictions of monarchy to pieces. The author's insight throws wide the eyes of people bound by old custom and ardently proclaims the natural human right to liberty and equality. The moment you read this fierce declaration that changed the course of history, a new courage will surely bloom in your heart as well.

— ONGO · Curator
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"오랜 기간 동안 잘못된 것을 틀렸다고 생각하지 않는 습관은, 그것이 마치 옳은 것 같은 겉모습을 만들어낸다."

🌱Apply It Today

Bring reasonable doubt to a rule or long-standing organizational custom you usually accept without question, and ask: is this really common sense?

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

天生緣分
Made in Heaven, Met on Earth
천생연분 · destined bond
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