Common sense (n.) is always the name in which the war against intelligence is waged.
Common sense (n.) is to the mind what ordinary hearing is to the ear: it tells sounds apart, though it cannot judge music.
Common sense (n.) is the white-haired man with rings on every finger who says, study philosophy, child, but keep your head — you know better than they how to live.
Common sense (n.) is all social analysis requires — the Cartesian kind, evenly shared: look at the facts openly, test simple assumptions, follow an argument to its end; the 'depths' do not exist.
Eyesight (n.) goes slowly enough that you blame the light for years.
The Five senses (n.) are editors rather than windows, and most of the world is cut.
The Five senses (n.) report change and go quiet about anything that stays the same.
The Five senses (n.) interfere with each other, which is why the radio goes down when the driver is looking for a house number.
The Five senses (n.) leave out balance, hunger and the certainty that somebody is standing behind you.
Hearing (n.) is something we rarely notice doing with our ears; someone might hear like us and later be found deaf in his ears.
Hearing (n.) in the deepest sense is obedience: we have ears in order to hear the song of the earth beneath humanity's racket on its worn surface.
Hearing (n.) does not need ears, nor does the spirit need sound to be reached.
Hearing (n.) is the one sense always left open, because we need it even while we sleep.