Rules and regulations Quote by Ali Smith

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

— Aldous Huxley

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

— Gary Zukav

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…

— Gary Zukav

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“How much nonsense can we take in our lives? And is there any way we can escape it? No, there is not. We are…

— Thomas Ligotti

“nonsense can also be real”

— Siri Hustvedt

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

— Anthony Burgess

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people…

— Anonymous

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

— Daniil Kharms

“What I mean to do is pass from unobvious nonsense to obvious nonsense”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton