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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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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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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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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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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How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors.
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It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
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Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, 'That were to consider it too curiously.'
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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
