"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."
"Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.’"
the importance of living
I just received my copy of Lin Yutang’s book, The Importance of Living. Lin Yutang was a Chinese philosopher of the early 20th century who became an apostle of loafing. The Importance of Living was his opus. He described it as an:
Idle philosophy born of an idle life.
I’m looking forward to reading and digesting it.
Here are a few Yutang quotes that I like:
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
- clay
"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (for it is only experience which teaches us that the head is more necessary than feet). But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
"Anger at things that happen shows small wit;
For all our wrath concerns them not a bit."
"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web."
"The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces."
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