Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin YutangFew men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
Lin YutangOnly he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Lin YutangA good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Lin YutangWhat threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted
Lin Yutang