{"quotes":[{"text":"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["education","humor","nonsense"],"id":7669,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, I'll keep writing.","author":"Benjamin Bayani","tags":["nonsense","writing"],"id":11042,"author_id":"Benjamin+Bayani"},{"text":"When people get into their 30s plus 'boyfriend' sounds weird...If you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start using the term 'manfriend' or 'snookie bookie cuddles pie'.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["boyfriend","comedy","comedy-humor","humor","manfriend","nonsense","relationships","thirties"],"id":15195,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"},{"text":"If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angry-men","answers","behavior","clarification","closure","communication","confusion","crushes","family-members","gentlemen","good-life","husband","inconsistent-behavior","jealous-women","man","mixed-signals","nonsense","relationships","rumors","seeking-closure","siblings","sisters","spouse","stalkers","truth","wife","woman","women"],"id":17129,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","nonsense","the-answers","uncomprehending","world"],"id":22285,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"Silence by any other name is called shame.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["nonsense","shame","silence"],"id":23217,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, I.E. The propositions of natural science, I.E. Something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["non-duality","nonsense","philosophy","reality","tat-tvam-asi","the-game","theology"],"id":39615,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"I'm afraid it's not nonsense,' Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. 'As I was saying before the little girl interrupted me, the baby didn't dash off with the other orphans. She just sat there like a sack of flour. So I walked over to her and gave her a kick to get her moving.'Excellent idea!' Nero said. 'What a wonderful story this is! And then what happened?'Well, at first it seemed like I'd kicked a big hole in the baby,' Genghis said, his eyes shining, 'which seemed lucky, because Sunny was a terrible athlete and it would have been a blessing to put her out of her misery.'Nero clapped his hands. 'I know just what you mean, Genghis,' he said. 'She's a terrible secretary as well.'But she did all that stapling,' Mr. Remora protested. 'Shut up and let the coach finish his story,' Nero said.'But when I looked down,' Genghis continued, 'I saw that I hadn't kicked a hole in a baby. I'd kicked a hole in a bag of flour! I'd been tricked!'That's terrible!' Nero cried.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["a-series-of-unfortunate-events","absurd","apathy","baby","black-humor","count-olaf","cruel-joke","cruelty","dark-humor","lemony-snicket","nonsense","the-austere-academy"],"id":50980,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["funny","gibberish","humor","metaphysics","nonsense","philosophy","sophistry","understanding","voltaire"],"id":51411,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see the sense. If we stand in front of the nonsense, the ‘non’ shall always face us. It may only take a step taking to go behind the 'non' to see the sense the ‘non’ is obstructing. There are so many people who quit so quickly just because they look at the non in front of the sense and they conclude that sense can never come after ‘non’.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["attitude","better-days-ahead","common-sense","dont-give-up","facing-challenges","facing-difficulties","facing-realities","go-the-extra-mile","look-beyond-what-you-look","nonsense","right-attitude","tenacity","the-right-actions-for-your-goals","thought"],"id":52566,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}