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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

Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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Linguist
Novelist
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Humor
Fanaticism
Animal
Conservatism
Wisdom
Idealism
Called
Ache
Reality
Realism
Dream
Fantasy
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Usually
Heart
Dreams

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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
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All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
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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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An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
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The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
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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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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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Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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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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The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
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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.
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Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
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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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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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All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
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