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Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 153. Often quoted as: "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

„No, the enjoyment of an idle life doesn't cost any money. The capacity for true enjoyment of idleness is lost in the moneyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme contempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatient with the business of making money.“

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— Lin Yutang, buch The Importance of Living

Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 155

„Our task is not so much discovery as re-discovery. What one needs is not so much thinking as remembering. Sometimes it suffices to sit quietly and listen well, when venerable men have thought before us. Constant forgettings of truths once perceived are the very charm of the human mind; the history of human thought is nothing more than the story of these forgettings and rememberings and forgettings again.“

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— Lin Yutang

On the Wisdom of America (1950), p. xiv

„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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Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 36

„A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.“

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— Lin Yutang, buch The Importance of Living

Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 38 (Chinese saying)

„The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.“

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Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 162

„All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.“

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In Vogue, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, Vols. 30–31 (1937), p. 69

„I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.“

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— Lin Yutang

"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time", in The China Critic, Vol. III, no. 4 (23 January 1930), p. 81

„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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— Lin Yutang, buch The Importance of Living

Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 8

„The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.“

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— Lin Yutang

Between Tears And Laughter (1943), p. 71. Variant: "When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.", as quoted in The World's Funniest Laws (2005) by James Alexander, ISBN 1905102100, p. 6.

„What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini… in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.“

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— Lin Yutang, buch The Importance of Living

Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. IV : On Having A Stomach, p. 46