 The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.  Notices of the Proceedings - Seite 98von Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1883 - 578 Seiten
...giving the explanation of it here, though it again interrupts the course of our work to do so. The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception...incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 Seiten
...is different from it." Or, as he, elsewhere in his great work, writes more at large — " The cause of laughter, in every case, is simply the sudden perception...or more real objects by means of one concept, and have passed on the identity of the concept to the objects. It then becomes strikingly apparent, from... | |
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