"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
― Umberto Eco
Topic(s):
Society
More From Umberto Eco
- "There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past."
- "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."
- "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
More In Society
- "To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."― Albert Camus
- "The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction."― Christopher Lasch
- "But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, ’cause you’re not going to get it from what’s around you. And society isn’t going to give it to you."― Jerry Garcia