Philosophy Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

“I can last two months on a good compliment.”

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.”

“Happiness is a sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.”

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”

“Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.”

“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”

“From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance”

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country?”