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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

— Christian Morgenstern The Hidden Souls of Words (2004)

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Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.

aphorism (1907)

All Servants
Across the heavens that surround this sphere, I write:
It is not the tyrant who is a shameful man,
but the servant of the tyrant.

For, he reasons pointedly
That which must not, can not be.

None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.

Zarathustra’s Children (2000)

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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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