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Philosophy Quotes by Lin Yutang
- I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as…
- There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of…
- Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind…
- Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
More Philosophy Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon