“Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.”
More from Immanuel Kant on Philosophy
“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”
“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
“He who would know the world must first manufacture it.”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
“To be is to do.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner co...”
Joseph Conrad
13 quotes“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”