Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior Quotes

“To arouse laughter, his appreciation of the "point" of the joke must be almost instantaneous, however long he may be in preparing for that appreciation.”
― James Walsh, Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior

“As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.”
― James Walsh, Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior

“Your brain though it is the ruler of your body, has not the power of itself to initiate thought; nor can it, of itself, direct your muscles to perform any definite action. It must receive, first, a suggestion or impulse from without.”
― James Walsh, Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior

“The one important and essential difference that distinguishes humans from the lower animals is that humans possess a mind. We reason. Our life is ruled not by every passing impulse that flashes across the transmission lines of our nerves. Rather, our mind is in charge. Our brain is the guiding power of the nervous system, and consequently of our body and its functions.”
― James Walsh, Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior

“Every time we perform a conscious action, there is just such an interchange of messages between our nerve centers, our brain and our muscles.”
― James Walsh, Classic Insights into Life and Human Behavior