When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
reading life
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
food patriotism childhood
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
food
men shadows sun
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
travel home rest
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
tea
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
people
This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of thought and life. It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths. In fact I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
philosophy life truth experience
It is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, Life is beautiful.
life
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.
philosophy life
Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.
life religion
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
truth religion
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
society
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
belief man faith
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.
places man
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