Blaise Cendrars
Poet and Novelist
"Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery."
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Nonsensical
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."
Frank Smith
Author
"Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."
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"Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical."
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