Lin Yutang Quotes about Philosophy

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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Lin Yutang

Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

Lin Yutang

Philosophy, Society, Body

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.

Lin Yutang

Philosophy, Eye, Average

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Lin Yutang

Philosophy, Reality, Healthy

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

Lin Yutang

Teacher, Philosophy, Animal

"The wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, p. 3-4, 1942.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Lin Yutang

Philosophy, Loss, Medicine

Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.73, Read Books Ltd