#hum

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#based #comedy #end #little #put

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#finest #genius #humor #justly #perfection

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#deeper #essence #far #head #heart

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#honor #humanity #i #idea #kind

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#cultural #declaration #economic #every #full

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #find