Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
