Mark Duplass Quotes

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

Everything is not serious. If you don't like what I'm saying, change the channel - don't look at me, don't buy a ticket. You either get it or you don't, and it's fascinating because it's usually intelligent people with a sense of humor who get it.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.