If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly...
The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.
Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all t...
I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.
Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.
What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.
Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;
But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly enga...
If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.
And where, Socrates smiled, is the universe?The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped...That's not what I asked. Where is it?I don't know - how can I answer that?That is the point...
A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.
Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.[
The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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