"Is the human race a joke? Was..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
More by Mark Twain
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.”
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.”
“The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.”
More on Humanity
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”
“The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.”
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
More on Existence
“Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.”
“The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.”
“Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.”