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In fact,I believe the reason w...

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

And if the reader has no taste...

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

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There is no proper time and pl...

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

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A good traveller is one who do...

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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India was China's teacher in r...

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 well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

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The most bewildering thing abo...

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

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In contrast to logic, there is...

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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I have done my best. That is a...

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

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No one realizes how beautiful ...

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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If you can spend a perfectly u...

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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Besides the noble art of getti...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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Society can exist only on the ...

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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Our lives are not in the lap o...

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

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Hope is like a road in the cou...

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

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The wise man reads both books ...

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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This I conceive to be the chem...

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

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The history omankind seems lik...

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

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However vague they are, dreams...

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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If man be sensible and one fin...

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

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Let us face ourselves bravely ...

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 of philosophy is sound and healthy.

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