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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I dont think humor is forced upon my universe its a part of it. – Manuel Puig

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Humor

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. Im smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. – Jim Goad

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Humor

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesnt. It focuses on facts. – Sarah Silverman

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Humor

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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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Torture

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. – Marshall McLuhan

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Technology

The word romance, according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. – Billy Graham

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Romantic

In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall

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Art