Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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