“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s
“I think skepticism is an antidote for nonsense –and there's always nonsense in life– and also it's the method for discovering what's true or false. And yes, we should use it throughout life.”
22:54–23:09
Exuberant Skepticism (2012)
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Steven M. Greer (1955) American ufologist
Undated
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“Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
ESOF (2010).
Context: Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.
“Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist
From the essay The Sense of Humor http://books.google.com/books?id=y-MhAAAAMAAJ&q="To+appreciate+nonsense+requires+a+serious+interest+in+life"&pg=PA64#v=onepage first published in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).
J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 58.
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: The Beast God Forgot to Invent