Mark Twain Quotes About Philosophy

• Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Philosophy, Humor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.190, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2992, Delphi Classics

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, Animal

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.291, Createspace Independent Pub

• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

• Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

  Mark Twain

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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