“If the man laughs, change the Order.”
Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 173
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British orientalist 1840–1899Related quotes
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
“God became man in order to make me God; therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”
Ibid., P.109.
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), Penguin Books, translated by Anna Bostock.
Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.
Rabelais to the Reader (prefatory note on leading page).
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-13365-6
“The world laughs at another man's pain.”
"Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.
“A man who laughs will never be dangerous.”
The Passport, Versailles.
Original: (fr) Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)