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Lin Yutang Inspirational Quotes (73)

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The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
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Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.
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O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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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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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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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
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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.
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It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
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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.
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Art is both creation and recreation.
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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
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The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.
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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
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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.
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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.
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
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There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
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