Humor Quotes
Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.
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"Humor masks the absurdity of existence."Giorgio Agamben
"Humor is a weapon against despair and conformity."Félix Guattari
"Humor is a weapon against despair."Gilles Deleuze
"Humor finds the cracks in certainty."Gilles Deleuze
"We must learn to laugh at ourselves before we learn anything else."Slavoj Žižek
"Humor is the weapon of those without power."Slavoj Žižek
"Humor emerges from the collision of incompatible realities."Giorgio Agamben
"Humor is the recognition of multiple coexisting truths"Gilles Deleuze
"The joke reveals what serious discourse must repress."Slavoj Žižek
"Humor is the symptom of despair dressed up as laughter."Slavoj Žižek
"Humor is the gesture of one who has accepted the absurd."Giorgio Agamben
"Laughter is not the opposite of seriousness; it is the liberation of thought."Gilles Deleuze
"Humor is the crack where light enters the system."Gilles Deleuze
"Humor is the highest form of wisdom."Isaiah Berlin
"The ability to laugh at oneself is a sign of true strength."Isaiah Berlin
"Humor is the recognition that some situations contain irresolvable contradictions; laughter is defiance."Isaiah Berlin
"Humor that ridicules the powerless differs fundamentally from humor that challenges power."Max Horkheimer
"Humor is the small victory of consciousness against the overwhelming."Max Horkheimer
"Laughter is the recognition of incongruity."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Humor is the ability to see the contradiction between aspiration and reality."Isaiah Berlin
"Humor is the acknowledgment that life is both wonderful and absurd."Isaiah Berlin
"Humor reveals the incongruities within reality"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Humor is the most potent medicine for the soul."John Locke
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."Thomas Hobbes
"Laughter is the passion that provokes those grimaces called smiling."Thomas Hobbes
"The sweetest and most agreeable of all sounds is that of one's own praise"David Hume
"Humor reveals the contradictions that logic alone cannot grasp."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Humor is the recognition of contradiction without despair."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"A sudden glory is the passion which is the cause of laughter."Thomas Hobbes
"I am not at all in humor for talking; it looks like rain."John Locke