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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Even God has been defended with nonsense.
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
Uncommon sense is common nonsense.
Netherling logic resides in the hazy border between sense and nonsense.
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
One man's nonsense is another man's sense.
I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
It's hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsense
has been serving us so well
Absurdity of absurdities.
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Pointless to question the sanity of it.
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.
It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
I talk nonsense at times, because sense is monotonous.
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
We are doomed to all kinds of nonsense: the pain nonsense, the nightmare nonsense, the sweat and slave nonsense, and many other shapes and sizes of insufferable nonsense. It is brought to us on a plate, and we must eat it up or face the death nonsense.7
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
[I]n many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.
To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
People live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.
No sense makes sense.
To be logical is very illogical.
Bullshit is truth, truth bullshit
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
Nonsense, you're quite interesting when you try
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.
Nonsense does not improve by being bellowed.
There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.
Insanity is arguing with reality.
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
Poetry is sublime nonsense.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Nonsense which it would be shameful for a reasonable being to write, speak or hear spoken can be sung or listened to by that same rational being with pleasure and even with a kind of intellectual conviction.
Everything is absurd.
NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE
The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!
THOUGHT is precious!! I would rather think 'NOTHING' than think 'NONSENSE' ! Save the 'Thought Space' until I can think better !!
Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.
Craziness, indeed. And
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
Logic is a feeble reed, friend.
Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.
I have no wish to talk nonsense."
"If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new.
Happy! Of all the nonsense.
Leave me to my own absurdity.
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
Trying to make sense of what makes no sense can render you senseless. Let it go.
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for the grown-up people.
" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth." --Crime and punishment, F. Dostoevsky
Too much righteousness makes you a nonsense
Stop making sense
To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
Everything is meaningless
It is pointless.
As he went down the stairs, he even stopped short, two or three times, as though suddenly struck by some thought. When he was in the street he cried out, "Oh, God, how loathsome it all is! and can I, can I possibly ... . No, it's nonsense, it's rubbish!" he added resolutely.
Maybe reason is neater and more orderly, but nonsense is freeing.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Beliefs and opinions are nonsense. I don't even want to know what I think.
Embrace your craziness
Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.
Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have come to pass in it without them.
Mere prattle without practice
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.