comic

is always a sign of maturity and a vitally necessary legitimation for anyone who is to be regarded as authorized in the world of spirit in our day.

The comic is always a sign of maturity . . . I consider the power in the comic a vitally necessary legitimation for anyone who is to be regarded as authorized in the world of spirit in our day. . . . But assistant professors are so devoid of comic power that it is shocking . . .

is the perception of an opposite while humor is the feeling of it.

The comic is the perception of the opposite... humor is the feeling of it. Umberto Eco

is the same as the tragic inasmuch as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction.

The tragic and the comic are the same inasmuch as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction.

tragedy

The comic is the continual negation of nature.

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