Funny Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr Download Open image “What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.” — Reinhold Niebuhr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Happiness Humor Inspirational Joy Laughter Love
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Human beings are unable to be about the serious business of living and building societies if they feel compelled to always clown or entertain… — Na'im Akbar Copy Share Image
People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Sometimes its important to laugh at ourselves, don't always take life too seriously. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
When you're a funny person,Most people don't know how to take you seriously. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“What we do and what we take seriously can often be so far removed from what it is actually all about that it is… — Richard Templar Copy Share Image
Got to have a sense of humor about things and not take ourselves too seriously. — Layla Kayleigh Copy Share Image
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
