Hero-with-a-1000-faces Quote by Joseph Campbell

“humor is a spiritual journey to see the world in a unique, amusing way.”

— Ed Toolis

“It is well said that the Bible contains very little humor, but it does have much to say about the importance of genuine joy…

— Kenneth W. Osbeck

“Why wouldn’t there be divine humor? That’s what the religions sometimes forget.”

— Art Hochberg

“I think that God's got a sick sense of humour, and when I die I expect to find him laughing.”

— Depeche Mode

“Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.”

— James Martin

“They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The sense of humor is God's best gift to Man.”

— Yogi Ramacharaka

“laughter and a sense of humor as a universal index of spiritual development.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“BECAUSE OF PIETY’S PENCHANT for taking itself too seriously, theology does well to nurture a modest, unguarded sense of comedy. Some droll sensibility is…

— Thomas C. Oden

“They but appear a solemn People,— worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“There's a lot of humiliation in living, but that's okay, for if the gods are always laughing, then surely at times they must be…

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.”

— Alejandro Jodorowsky