#hum

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. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful ↗

— Ernest Cline

#pessimistic #they-might-be-giants #tmbw #beauty

Belladonna, n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definitions #humor #poison #sarcasm #women

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#answers #being #condition #dialogue #fighting

What does it mean a 'greener life'? Well, let's be brutal. It doesn't meaning meditating in a centrally heated room on a macrame mat in front of an Amerindian dreamcatcher and a homemade candle surrounded by ugly spider plants, then rushing off in a gas-guzzling 4-wheel drive to collect the children from school and feeding them on pre-prepared supermarket meals heated in the microwave. If you have a faith, living a greener life demands a certain amount of self-sacrifice. You don't save the planet with notions and lip service. Like every adventure it requires a degree of suffering and getting your hands dirty. ↗

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

#humor #truth #faith

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#better #books #children #enter #feel

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#good taste #human #important #more #sometimes

I don't have a very quick sense of humor. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#i #quick #sense #sense of humor #very

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. ↗

— Edward Bond

#drama #dramatic #human #human mind #itself

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #love #lovers #sheep #love