Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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