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
dog winter men
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.
men able fear-of-death
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.
philosophy rose heathers
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
people liberty demand
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.
men feelings salvation
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?
men talking conviction
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
mother believe finals
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.
men matter nothing-matters
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
life ends enjoyment
The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
men simplicity doe
We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
reading men world
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
insane asylums west
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
men afternoon clock
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
men hatred together
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.