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.
Lin YutangIn fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.
Lin YutangIn 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.
Lin YutangArt is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
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