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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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