Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 4

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• What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

  Lin Yutang

  Loyalty, Appreciation, Sweet

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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  Change, Humor, Character

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

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  Dream, Reality, Way

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

  Lin Yutang

  Army, Thinking, Color

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

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  Men, Matter, Nothing Matters

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Feelings, Salvation

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

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  Soul, Inner Peace, Inward

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• Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

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  Animal, Tears, Delight

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

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  Dog, Winter, Men

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Able, Fear Of Death

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

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  Food, Color, Chinese

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Weekend, Order

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

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  Men, Judging, Dirt

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

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  Food, Ayurveda, Cooking

  Yutang Lin (1940). “The Importance of Living”

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

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  Summer, Country, Wall

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

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  Wild Geese, Might, Too Much

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

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  Ideals, Greater

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

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  Men, Talking, Conviction

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

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  Life, Success, Lying

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

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  Children, Heart, Compassion

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

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  Men, Respectable, Respectability

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

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  Son, Needs, Life Is

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

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  Philosophy, Views, Objectivity

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

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  Mother, Believe, Doe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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