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So important is humor in our effort to understand the mystery of existence that we have reason to doubt the excellence of a philosopher who does not exhibit, at some point, a humorous vein. Particularly should we doubt the philosopher who takes himself so seriously that he cannot laugh at his own pretensions. It is not sacrilegious to call humor the “jovial.” To laugh is to see beyond the transitoriness of events, and thus to be Olympian or Jovelike.

D. Elton Trueblood, The Humor of Christ