Robbins Library Notes

851. …Amusement does have an aspect of good inasmuch as it is useful for human living. As man [sic] sometimes needs to give his body rest from labors, so also he sometimes needs to rest his soul from mental strain that ensues from his application to serious affairs. This is done by amusement.

– St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle, Book IV, Lecture 16, C. I. Litzinger, tr. (ND: Dumb Ox Press, 1993), taken from the Thomistic Humor Page.

A joke for you:

A physics/math/philosophy joke:

Dean, to the physics department: “Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff? Why couldn’t you be like the math department – all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper.”

— From David Chalmers’ compilation of Philosophical Humor.