Dr. SeussI like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Carl JungThe pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Carl SaganSkeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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E. M. Forster
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Stephen Jay GouldEven the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.
2 comments:
Love the first one.
I like Jung's quote. It kind of explains why people that are inherently good (I continue to believe that) can do so many evil things.
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