Provincial Level

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or level:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)