We Do Not Take Humor Seriously Enough.

A Man Sufficiently Gifted With Humor Is In Small Danger Of Succumbing To Flattering Delusions About Himself, Because He Cannot Help Perceiving What A Pompous Ass He Would Become If He Did.

Every Man Gets A Narrower And Narrower Field Of Knowledge In Which He Must Be An Expert In Order To Compete With Other People. The Specialist Knows More And More About Less And Less And Finally Knows Everything About Nothing.

All Scientific Knowledge To Which Man Owes His Role As Master Of The World Arose From Playful Activities.

Barking Dogs May Occasionally Bite, But Laughing Men Hardly Ever Shoot!

I Believe-and Human Psychologists, Particularly Psychoanalysts Should Test This-that Present-day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive. It Is More Than Probable That The Evil Effects Of The Human Aggressive Drives, Explained By Sigmund Freud As The Results Of A Special Death Wish, Simply Derive From The Fact That In Prehistoric Times Intra-specific Selection Bred Into Man A Measure Of Aggression Drive For Which In The Social Order Today He Finds No Adequate Outlet.