“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 12, “Countermeasures” (p. 211)
“If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.”
Stanisław Lem book Solaris
Source: Solaris (1961), Ch. 12: "The Dreams", p. 184
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EmBi describing Pastor Jón
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Alexander Rosenberg (1946) American philosopher
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Context: There is, however, a much more convincing argument that needs to be put on the table before we really begin turning common sense upside down. It is the overwhelming reason to prefer science to ordinary beliefs, common sense, and direct experience. Science is just common sense continually improving itself, rebuilding itself, until it is no longer recognizable as common sense. It is easy to miss this fact about science without studying a lot of history of science—and not the stories about science, but the succession of actual scientific theories and how common sense was both their mother and their midwife.
“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
“A sense of humor—bitter or otherwise—is the hallmark of a survivor.”
Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Fire with Fire (2013), Chapter 14 (p. 185)
