Capacity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact…

— Cornel West

“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when…

— James Carse

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness…

— Edward Hoagland

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

— Thomas Aquinas

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of…

— William Ellery Channing

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as…

— Eric Hoffer

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous.…

— Anonymous

“There are people who take exceeding pleasure in their own irritable touchiness, especially when it reaches the final limit (which always happens very quickly);…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

— Robin Marantz Henig

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The…

— Lewis Carroll