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Lin Yutang Quote: “Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.”

101. “Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted.”

102. “And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.”

103. “The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.”

104. “The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Men resort to talking only when they haven’t the power to enforce their convictions upon others.”

105. “Men resort to talking only when they haven’t the power to enforce their convictions upon others.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Neckties strangle clear thinking.”

106. “Neckties strangle clear thinking.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?”

107. “Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?”

Lin Yutang Quote: “As Walt Whitman says, “I am sufficient as I am.” It is sufficient that I live – and am probably going to live for another few decades – and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the problem becomes amazingly simple and admits of no two answers. What can be the end of human life except the enjoyment of it?”

108. “As Walt Whitman says, “I am sufficient as I am.” It is sufficient that I live – and am probably going to live for another few decades – and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the problem becomes amazingly simple and admits of no two answers. What can be the end of human life except the enjoyment of it?”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.”

109. “Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.”

110. “Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “It is difficult to imagine this kind of a new world because our present world is so different. On the whole, our life is too complex, our scholarship too serious, our philosophy too somber, and our thoughts too involved. This seriousness and this involved complexity of our thought and scholarship make the present world such an unhappy one today.”

111. “It is difficult to imagine this kind of a new world because our present world is so different. On the whole, our life is too complex, our scholarship too serious, our philosophy too somber, and our thoughts too involved. This seriousness and this involved complexity of our thought and scholarship make the present world such an unhappy one today.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.”

112. “Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “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.”

113. “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.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.”

114. “Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Love of one’s fellowmen should not be a doctrine, an article of faith, a matter of intellectual conviction, or a thesis supported by arguments. The love of mankind which requires reasons is no true love. This love should be perfectly natural, as natural for man as for the birds to flap their wings. It should be a direct feeling, springing naturally from a healthy soul, living in touch with Nature.”

115. “Love of one’s fellowmen should not be a doctrine, an article of faith, a matter of intellectual conviction, or a thesis supported by arguments. The love of mankind which requires reasons is no true love. This love should be perfectly natural, as natural for man as for the birds to flap their wings. It should be a direct feeling, springing naturally from a healthy soul, living in touch with Nature.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a “bosom friend,” or one who “knows his heart.”

116. “One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a “bosom friend,” or one who “knows his heart.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.”

117. “The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.”

118. “To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.”

119. “Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Now it must be taken for granted that simplicity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civilization loses simplicity and the sophisticated do not return to unsophistication, civilization becomes increasingly full of troubles and degenerates. Man then becomes the slave of the ideas, thoughts, ambitions and social systems that are his own product.”

120. “Now it must be taken for granted that simplicity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civilization loses simplicity and the sophisticated do not return to unsophistication, civilization becomes increasingly full of troubles and degenerates. Man then becomes the slave of the ideas, thoughts, ambitions and social systems that are his own product.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “A good cook was like a good educator; his duty was solely to bring out the talent of the chicken and show it to best advantage, as a good teacher brings out the talent inherent in a young man. Granted that the original talent was there in the chicken, too much coaxing, stuffing, imposing, and spicing would merely distract from its simple beauty and virtue.”

121. “A good cook was like a good educator; his duty was solely to bring out the talent of the chicken and show it to best advantage, as a good teacher brings out the talent inherent in a young man. Granted that the original talent was there in the chicken, too much coaxing, stuffing, imposing, and spicing would merely distract from its simple beauty and virtue.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “I can see no other reason for the existence of art and poetry and religion except as they tend to restore in us a freshness of vision and more emotional glamour and more vital sense of life.”

122. “I can see no other reason for the existence of art and poetry and religion except as they tend to restore in us a freshness of vision and more emotional glamour and more vital sense of life.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “With the predominance of economic problems and economic thinking, which is overshadowing all other forms of human thinking, we remain completely ignorant of, and indifferent to, a more humanized knowledge and a more humanized philosophy, a philosophy that deals with the problems of the individual life.”

123. “With the predominance of economic problems and economic thinking, which is overshadowing all other forms of human thinking, we remain completely ignorant of, and indifferent to, a more humanized knowledge and a more humanized philosophy, a philosophy that deals with the problems of the individual life.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “It is against the will of God to eat delicate food hastily, to pass gorgeous views hurriedly, to express deep sentiments superficially, to pass a beautiful day steeped in food and drinks, and to enjoy your wealth steeped in luxuries.”

124. “It is against the will of God to eat delicate food hastily, to pass gorgeous views hurriedly, to express deep sentiments superficially, to pass a beautiful day steeped in food and drinks, and to enjoy your wealth steeped in luxuries.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “The best social philosophies do not claim any greater objective than that the individual human beings living under such a regime shall have happy individual lives. If there are social philosophies which deny the happiness of the individual life as the final goal and aim of civilization, those philosophies are the product of a sick and unbalanced mind.”

125. “The best social philosophies do not claim any greater objective than that the individual human beings living under such a regime shall have happy individual lives. If there are social philosophies which deny the happiness of the individual life as the final goal and aim of civilization, those philosophies are the product of a sick and unbalanced mind.”

Lin Yutang Quote: “Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual is the final fact of life. He is an end in himself, and not a means to other creations of the human mind. The.”

126. “Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual is the final fact of life. He is an end in himself, and not a means to other creations of the human mind. The.”

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