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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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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Nature
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Humor
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. – George Saintsbury

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Humor

Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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Humor

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. – George Herbert

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Humor

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what Im talking about or not. – John Hodgman

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Humor

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No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. – Rumi

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Rumi

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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Goodbye

Do not depend on others for safety — Help yourself. – Safety saying, circa early 1900s

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Safety

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war –for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. Id say we deserve ours more. – John Lennon

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Beatles, The