A Quote by Jeremy Bentham
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
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If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.
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
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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