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
dream reality way
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.
common-sense logic spirit
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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.
mothers-day mom parenting
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
belief justify narrow-minded
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
army thinking color
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.
funeral chinese mind
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
moments bluebird
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
dream heart animal
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
facts world modern
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
wild-geese might too-much
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.
ideals greater
The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.
dream war men
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted
misunderstood may
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.