Humor Quotes
Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.
21194 quotes
P
P
D
M
L
L
S
E
E
E
E
H
E
E
L
P
P
A
K
N
N
A
P
L
L
J
"Humor is the permitted expression of the forbidden."Philip Rieff
"Humor is rebellion disguised as laughter."Philip Rieff
"Humor helps us cope with life's challenges."David Riesman
"Humor arises when we glimpse the gap between pretense and reality."Maurice Natanson
"Humor is wisdom expressed through laughter."Lucien Goldmann
"Humor reveals truth in disguise."Lucien Goldmann
"Humor helps us cope with tragedy."Siegfried Kracauer
"Humor is the weapon of the oppressed."Ernst Bloch
"Humor is the only thing that can make the unbearable bearable."Ernst Bloch
"Humor is the weapon of those who refuse to accept the world as given."Ernst Bloch
"Humor reveals the cracks in the facade of what we accept as inevitable."Ernst Bloch
"Humor that merely entertains without challenging is often the most effective form of control."Herbert Marcuse
"Humor reveals the gap between the actual and the possible."Ernst Bloch
"Laughter is the sound of recognition that things could be otherwise."Ernst Bloch
"Humor often reveals truths that serious discourse cannot articulate."Lucien Goldmann
"Humor is the acknowledgment that life contains contradiction."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Melancholy is the saturnine side of satire."Walter Benjamin
"Humor reveals truth that seriousness conceals."Paul Feyerabend
"Humor deflates pretense and pomposity."Paul Feyerabend
"The human body is a very imperfect affair, and we should like it very much better if it had not been designed while the designer was in a state of lunacy."Alfred North Whitehead
"Humor is a sign of intelligence and humility."Karl Popper
"Humor often reveals deeper truths about society."Noam Chomsky
"Laughter connects us across differences."Noam Chomsky
"In all seriousness, gravity is not the highest virtue."Alfred North Whitehead
"Humor is often the most honest commentary on power and pretense."Paul Feyerabend
"Humor often contains profound truth disguised as levity."Ludwig von Mises
"Humor is a sign of wisdom and perspective."Ludwig von Mises
"Humor often points to the gaps between expectation and reality."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Humor reveals truth through the unexpected collision of contexts."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."John Maynard Keynes