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Quote by Umberto Eco
The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling o

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it. – Umberto Eco

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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Truth
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Umberto Eco
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Learning
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Umberto Eco
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Whether its viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, Im consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the Delete option and restraining orders were invented. – Richard Roeper

Category:
Humor

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. – Ted Rall

Category:
Humor

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. – James Boswell

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Humor

Humor can be one of our best survival tools. – Allen Klein

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Humor

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Who loves, raves. – Lord Byron

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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Im from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. Im born and bred country. Thats all I listen to. – Lucy Hale

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mom

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry