The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.