Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Quotes to Explore
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
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I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.
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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
