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Single Idea 8767
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
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Full Idea
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Gist of Idea
Sorrow is better than laughter
Source
Anon (Ecc) (21: Book of Ecclesiastes [c.200 BCE], 07.03)
Book Ref
'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.328
A Reaction
This writer fails to see the good in laughter. If he did, he would have a more balanced view, and we could take this opinion more seriously. Theatre audiences always seem keen to hunt out jokes where none are intended.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining the nature and sources of what is funny]:
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7494
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Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it?
[Anon (Ecc)]
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8767
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Sorrow is better than laughter
[Anon (Ecc)]
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6211
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Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly
[Hobbes]
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12171
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Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view
[Schopenhauer]
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22047
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Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy
[Kierkegaard]
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14833
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Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance
[Nietzsche]
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18303
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Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
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12318
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The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
[Badiou]
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12169
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Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason
[Scruton]
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12170
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Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity
[Scruton]
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12172
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Objects of amusement do not have to be real
[Scruton]
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12173
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The central object of amusement is the human
[Scruton]
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6848
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Humour is practically enacted philosophy
[Critchley]
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6847
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Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change
[Critchley]
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22701
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Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive
[Jacobson,D]
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