Nonsense Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.”

Aldous Huxley

Nonsense, Freedom, Spirituality, Oppression, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight

2. “Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”

E.M. Forster

Nonsense, Beauty, Connection, Creativity, Humor, Artistic Vision

3. “Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wasted Potential, Literary Quality, Creative Value, Paper, Shakespeare, Nonsense

4. “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

Carl Jung

Mind Pendulum, Sense Nonsense, Right Wrong, Mind, Nonsense, Sense

5. “There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage Debate, Nonsense Danger, Marriage, Danger, Nonsense, Debate

6. “Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?”

Stephen King

Wordplay, Language, Nonsense, Creativity, Fun, Humor

7. “We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nonsense Choice, Foolish Advantage, Choice, Advantage, Foolish, Nonsense

8. “Well, let them talk nonsense: perhaps then they’ll talk sense later.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nonsense Transition, Evolving Wisdom, Nonsense, Sense, Wisdom, Transition

9. “Talking nonsense is man’s only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nonsense Privilege, Human Uniqueness, Talking, Privilege, Nonsense, Uniqueness

10. “Talk nonsense to me, by all means, but do it with your own brain, and I shall love you for it. To talk nonsense in one’s own way is almost better than to talk a truth that is someone else’s; in the first instance you behave like a human being, while in the second you are merely being a parrot!”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Authentic Thoughts, Original Expression, Nonsense, Truth, Brain, Authentic