Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is a part of spirituality.
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