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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
Source: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921 -
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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