Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.