Frases de Lin Yutang (83 citações, página 2)

Lin Yutang: 83 citações 21 Curtidas

Lin Yutang Frases famosas

“Não há no mundo livros que se devam ler, mas somente livros que uma pessoa deve ler em certo momento, em certo lugar, dentro de certas circunstâncias e num certo período da sua vida.”

Lin Yutang

“A história humana é o resultado do conflito dos nossos ideais com as realidades, e a acomodação entre os ideais e as realidades determina a evolução peculiar de cada nação.”

Lin Yutang

“A vida social só pode existir na base de uma certa dose de mentiras refinadas e de que ninguém diga exatamente o que pensa.”

Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
The little critic: essays, satire and sketches on China (second series: 1933 ...‎ - Página 143, Yutang Lin - The Commercial Press, 1935 - 258 páginas

“No Ocidente, pensa-se muito em sexo e pouco nas mulheres.”

Lin Yutang livro The Importance of Living

is that in the West, people think too much of sex and too little of women.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)

“Além da nobre arte de conseguir fazer as coisas, existe a nobre arte de deixar as coisas por fazer. A sabedoria da vida consiste na eliminação do que não é essencial.”

Lin Yutang

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.
citado em "Pearls of Wisdom : A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" (1987) por Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, p. 46
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“A paz da consciência é o maior de todos os dons. Uma pessoa com a consciência limpa não tem motivos para temer os espectros.”

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“O erudito é como o corvo que alimenta os seus filhotes vomitando o que comeu. O pensador é como o bicho da seda, que não nos dá folhas de amoreira, mas seda.”

Lin Yutang

“O sábio lê livros, mas lê também a vida. O universo é um grande livro e a vida é uma grande escola.”

Lin Yutang livro The Importance of Living

The wise man reads both books and life itself. The universe is one big book, and life is one big school.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)

De escola , De livros , De vida , Universo

“A paz e a força são duas mulheres ciumentas que recusam-se sempre a ficar na mesma casa.”

Lin Yutang

De paz , De mulheres , Casa

“Todos nós temos a ideia pervertida de que o cérebro humano é um órgão para pensar. Nada está mais longe da verdade.”

Lin Yutang

De verdade , Idéia

“Entre todos os direitos da mulher, nenhum é maior que o de ser mãe.”

Lin Yutang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
My country and my people - página 152, de Yutang Lin, 5a. ed., Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935, 382 páginas

De mulheres

“O mundo hoje é dividido em fumantes e não fumantes. É certo que os fumantes causam alguns incômodos aos não-fumantes, mas tal incômodo é físico, ao passo que o incômodo que os não-fumantes causam aos fumadores é espiritual.”

Lin Yutang livro The Importance of Living

The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokery but this nuisance is physical, while the nuisance that the non- smokers cause the smokers is spiritual.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)

De dor , De mundo

“Se consegues viver uma tarde absolutamente inútil, de maneira absolutamente inútil, então sabes viver.”

Lin Yutang

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
citado em "The Literary digest", Volume 124‎ - Página 32, Isaac Kaufman Funk - Funk and Wagnalls, 1938
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“O segredo da felicidade consiste em sabermos gozar o que temos e perder toda a atração pelas coisas que estão além do nosso alcance.”

Lin Yutang

De segredo , De felicidade

“Não se pode chamar leitura a essa tremenda quantidade de tempo que se perde com os jornais.”

Lin Yutang

Tempo , Perda , Leitura

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“Há tanto para amar e admirar nesta vida que é um ato de ingratidão não ser feliz e contente nesta existência.”

Lin Yutang

De vida

Lin Yutang: Frases em inglês

“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 livro The Importance of Living

Fonte: 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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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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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"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 livro The Importance of Living

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

“If life is all subjective, why not be subjectively happy rather than subjectively sad?”

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On the Wisdom of America (1950), p. 155

“To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (which is morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it is equally amazing that men should not, or could not, behave toward one another as decent beings without thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party.”

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Fonte: My Country and My People (1935), p. 106

“If the early Chinese people had any chivalry, it was manifested not toward women and children, but toward old people. That feeling of chivalry found clear expression in Mencius in some such saying as, "The people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street," which was expressed as the final goal of good government.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 193

“Human life can be lived like a poem.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 32

“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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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 4

“While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 3

“I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 5

“A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.”

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Fonte: My Country and My People (1935), p. 43

“He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), pp. 39–40

“It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, pp. 4–5

“These influences of my young childhood were greatest: 1, the mountain landscape, 2, my father the impossible idealist, and 3, the upringing of a closely-knit Christian home.”

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Memoirs of an Octogenarian (1975), pp. 8–9

“I am here to speak on freedom of speech. It is a great topic, and I am going to make my speech as free as possible. But you know that this cannot be done, for when anyone announces that he is going to speak his mind freely, everyone is frightened. This shows that there is no such thing as true freedom of speech. No one can afford to let his neighbors know what he is thinking about them. 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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" Of Freedom of Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=OM4eT2epYzwC&q="Society+can+exist+only+on+the+basis+that+there+is+some+amount+of+polished+lying+and+that+no+one+says+exactly+what+he+thinks"&pg=PA95#v=onepage", lecture given in China (4 March 1933)

“A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 163

“The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him.”

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Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 12
Contexto: I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. I hope I shall succeed. For things are not so simple as they sometimes seem. In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from being lost in serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies. The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him.