The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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