Max Eastman
Max Eastman
Max Forrester Eastmanwas an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1883
CountryUnited States of America
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind