Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutangwas a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 October 1895
CountryChina
common-sense logic spirit
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
moving unhappy bowels
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
philosophy views objectivity
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
inner-peace soul tests
The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
wisdom simple simplicity
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
this-life existence admire
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
positive joy psychology
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
goal tendencies carrie
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
teacher philosophy night
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.
summer spring autumn
Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
food ayurveda cooking
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
mind accepted worst
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
wise reading book
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
ayurveda digestion matter
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.