Common Sense and Philosophy

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Le Réalisme de la Principe de Finalité  (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1932), 187.  (My translation)

"Whatever certain philosophers may think about it, common sense is good not only for farmers and tradesmen.  Socrates and Aristotle thought that it is useful for philosophers themselves and that to break with common sense is to break with the first principles of natural reason."