This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
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 probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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.
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is a part of spirituality.
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