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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

I am a temporary amusement.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!

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.