I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly… — 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 Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
