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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6211	Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (Human Nature [1640], Ch.IX.13)
	A reaction: Laughter tends to involve something unusual. We don't just burst out with a glory of vanity whenever we meet some inferiority in another person.