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“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

Thinking Way Two Intellectual Economics Absolutes Vices Nonsense Consideration Isolated Ecology Vice Versa Uncommon

Author:Charles C. Mann

“While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.”

Way Community Common Moral Practice Absolutes Nonsense Metaphysics

Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

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

Way Sometimes Desire Absolutes Stupidity Nonsense

Book:The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.”

Habit Discipline Commitment Gains Absolutes Fixed Nonsense Absolute Freedom

Author:Richard J. Foster

“To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.”

Play Havens England Absolutes Nonsense Motivated

Author:Robbie Fowler

“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Courses Careers Teach College Photography Draws Absolutes Nonsense Royal

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.”

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.”

People Ifs Want Long Important Games Balls Absolutes Towns Spending Evening Nonsense Long Life Attending Ball Games

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.”

Seems History Events Absolutes Doctrine Nonsense Uniqueness Events In History

Author:Crane Brinton

“Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.”

Men Giving Humans Different Would Be Form Jesus Christ He Man Higher Giving Up Worship Jesus Christ Absolutes Manifestation Nonsense Worship God Worship Jesus

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Suffering Interest Animal Example Capacity Stones Absolutes Liberation Sufficient Enjoyment Nonsense Minimum Mice Animal Liberation

Author:Peter Singer

“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.”

Men May Important Reason Remember Ability Perspective Economics Absolutes Very Good Vices Nonsense Divorced Vice Versa Often Is Theorists Ability To See

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy