Quotes About Nonsense

This is necessary nonsense.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Why is there so much meaning when a mind breaks? Why isn't it all just static and nonsense?

Consider the fiddlesticks!

Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.

clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg

The entire dispute between materialists and spiritualists, which became so heated during 1855-56, is merely proof of the unbelievable vulgarity and shameless ignorance to which the learned profession has sunk as a result of the study of Hegelian nonsense and neglect of Kantian philosophy.

I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum I live in a cara-van  dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum

Let us say in its favor that though it is nonsense, it is gorgeous nonsense, and it does not lead us down slow cold steps to worship a tyrant in his tomb; and that at least there have never been Unicorn Riots, Unicorn Wars, Unicorn Persecutions, Unicorn Plagues, Unicorn Famines. A scholar in his study studying unicorns will compass no one's death in the sacred names of Science and Technology. Perhaps we are where we are because we have no more unicorns. Onward.

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

There will always be people who think suffering leads to enlightenment, who place themselves on the verge of what's about to break, or go dangerously wrong. Let's resist them and their thinking, you and I. Let's not rush toward that sure thing that awaits us, which can dumb us into nonsense and pain.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

How can you help resenting the absurdity of time, its march into the future, and all the nonsense about evolution and progress? Why go forward, why live in time.

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.

People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.