Lin Yutang Quotations

Lin Yutang Quotations:

1. A citizen who has no humor and nourishment, its culture must become hypocritical, life must become increasingly fraudulent, and thoughts will become increasingly pedantic, literature will become increasingly dry, and the human mind will become increasingly stubborn.

2. Art should be a kind of satirical literature, a warning to our numb emotions, dead thoughts, and unnatural life. It teaches us to be honest and sincere in the world of pretense.

3. It is certainly much cheaper to enjoy a leisurely life than to enjoy a luxury life. To enjoy a leisurely life, just a kind of artist's temperament, in a totally leisurely mood, to spend a leisurely afternoon.

4. Those who are capable, intelligent, ambitious, arrogant, and at the same time, the most cowardly and confused, lack the courage, depth, and ingenuity of a humorist. They are always dealing with trivial things. They don't know that the humorous people who are more thoughtful than the other are better able to cope with the great things.

5. A person is behaved in court, measurable, patient, and educated, all of which are developed in the family. A person who loves the world but can't get along with his parents can be a very uncomfortable person, but he is a very uncomfortable person, because he can't learn to adapt even in the most personal relationship.

6. Let me be friends and grass, and I am satisfied with the soil. My soul is very comfortable to squirm in the mud and feels very happy. When a person is intoxicated on the land, his heart seems to be so relaxed, as if in heaven. In fact, his six-footed body, why should you leave the soil one inch?

7. Fall in love with someone is to fall in love with a wound. This is the words of Lin Yutang. Every love is like a fresh wound, growing in my heart, occasionally painful. However, it is those pains and memories that make us mature, romantic, tolerant, self-contained, calm, more understanding of love, and more love.

8. There is no world of women, there must be no etiquette, religion, tradition and social class. There are no natural and ruthless men in the world, and there are no natural and uncourteous women. Assume that there is no woman, we will not live in the same alley, but will live in the house of the triangular door and window octagonal bath, and do not know the difference between the dining room and the bedroom, what is the point. Men like to eat in the bedroom and sleep in the dining room.

9. If we have knowledge in the world that we can't understand, we can't appreciate it with criticism, we have beauty without love, we have truth without lack of enthusiasm, we have justice and lack of compassion, we are polite and have no warmth. Heart, what a poor world this world will become!

10. It is certainly much cheaper to enjoy a leisurely life than to enjoy a luxury life. To enjoy a leisurely life, just a kind of artist's temperament, in a totally leisurely mood, to spend a leisurely afternoon.

11. If a person can look at life with a poetic eye, perhaps the sunset in life will be regarded as the happiest period. Not only will he not try to delay the arrival of old age, but he will actively look forward to it, and make this time the most beautiful and happy part of his life.

12. Elegance is not a label, but a real pleasure: ordinary people can't appreciate the fun of this earthly life, because they don't love life, make life ordinary, rigid, and boring.

13. Let me be friends and grass, and I am satisfied with the soil. My soul is very comfortable to squirm in the mud and feels very happy. When a person is intoxicated on the land, his heart seems to be so relaxed, as if in heaven. In fact, his six-footed body, why should you leave the soil one inch?

14. Anyone who talks about the truth has harmed it; anyone who attempts to prove it is disguised and distorted; anyone who adds a logo to it and sets a line of thought is killed. It: Anyone who claims to believe in it is buried. So a truth, when it was erected as a system, it had died three times and was buried three times.

15. A true traveller must be a wanderer, experiencing the happiness, temptation, and adventure of the wanderer. Travel must be wandering, otherwise it will not be called travel. The main points of travel are no responsibility, no timing, no correspondence, no neighbors, no visitors, no destination. A good traveler never knows where he is going, better not even know where to come from. He even forgot his name.

16. Only a happy philosophy is a truly deep philosophy; the serious philosophical theories of the West, I don’t think I have begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only effect of philosophy is that we have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than a general businessman.

17. Life is a dream. Human beings live like a passenger, riding on a boat and driving along the river of eternal time. Go on a boat in one place and ashore in another, so that other rivers wait for passengers on board.

18. Only a happy philosophy is a truly deep philosophy; those serious philosophical theories in the West, I don’t think I have begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only effect of philosophy is that we have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than the average person.

19. The writer's pen, like the shoemaker's cone, is sharper and sharper, and later it can be pointed as a needle. However, the scope of his concept must be increasingly broad, just like a person's mountaineering view, the higher the climb, the farther the viewer is.

20. Face it in a faint mood, Xu Zhimo: You remember, it is best that you forget. Lin Yutang: You go, I won't send you; you come, no matter how windy and rainy, I will pick you up. Shu Ting: It seems to be separated forever, but it is lifelong. Xi Murong: Write three hundred poems with tears in the sky.

21. Life is small in the universe and behaves just like Chinese landscape paintings. In the landscape painting, the subtleties of the landscape are not easy to see, because it has disappeared into the blank of the water, when two tiny characters sit in the small boat on the river flowing in the moonlight. From that moment on, the reader lost in that atmosphere.

Personal profile:

A famous modern Chinese writer, scholar, translator, linguist, and representative of the new Taoist. Born in 1895 in a Christian pastor family in Taipa Town, Pinghe County, Fujian Province. The original name and music, after the change to Yutang, and changed the language hall. He studied in the United States and Germany in his early years and received a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Leipzig. After returning to China, he taught at Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Xiamen University. He has served as Director of Art and Literature of UNESCO and Vice President of International PEN. Lin Yutang was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1940 and 1950. He has founded the "The Analects of Confucius", "The World", "Cosmic Wind" and other publications. His works include the novel "Jinghua Yanyun" and "Smiles and Smiles". Prose and essay collections "The Feast of Life", "The Art of Life" and the translation of "Dongpo's Poetry Selection" and "Six Life". Settled in Taiwan in 1966. He died in Hong Kong in 1976 at the age of 80.