Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Quotes

“What does laughter mean? ...The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle downwards, have tackled this little problem, which has a knack of baffling every effort...”
― Henri Bergson, Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

“Here, however, the comic element is very faint. It is too far from its source.

If you wish to strengthen it, you must go back to the source itself and contrast the derived image—that of a masquerade—with the original one, which, be it remembered, was that of a mechanical tampering with life.”
― Henri Bergson, Laughter - An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic