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“Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao”
― Lin Yutang, Moment in Peking

tags: pursuit-of-truth, truth, wry

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“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
― Rumi

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
― Lin Yutang, Lin Yutang on the Wisdom of America

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“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

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“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”
― Lin Yutang, My Country And My People

tags: chinese-philosophy, human-nature, logic, philosophy, reason

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