Lin Yutang
escritor chinês
Lin Yutang 林語堂 (perto de Xiamen, Fujian, 10 de Outubro de 1895 – Yangmingshan, Taipé, Taiwan, 26 de Março de 1976) foi um escritor chinês cujo trabalho original e traduções de textos clássicos chineses se tornaram muito populares no Ocidente.
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Obras
editar- "A vida social só pode existir na base de uma certa dose de mentiras refinadas e de que ninguém diga exatamente o que pensa".
- - Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- - The little critic: essays, satire and sketches on China (second series: 1933 ... - Página 143, Yutang Lin - The Commercial Press, 1935 - 258 páginas
- - Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- - Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
- - My country and my people - página 152, de Yutang Lin, 5a. ed., Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935, 382 páginas
- - Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
The Importance of Living (1937)
editar- "O mundo hoje é dividido em fumantes e não fumantes. É certo que os fumantes causam alguns incômodos aos não-fumantes, mas tal incômodo é físico, ao passo que o incômodo que os não-fumantes causam aos fumadores é espiritual".
- - The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokery but this nuisance is physical, while the nuisance that the non- smokers cause the smokers is spiritual.
- - Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" (1937)
- - The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokery but this nuisance is physical, while the nuisance that the non- smokers cause the smokers is spiritual.
- - is that in the West, people think too much of sex and too little of women.
- - Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" (1937)
- - is that in the West, people think too much of sex and too little of women.
- "O sábio lê livros, mas lê também a vida. O universo é um grande livro e a vida é uma grande escola".
- - The wise man reads both books and life itself. The universe is one big book, and life is one big school.
- - Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" (1937)
- - The wise man reads both books and life itself. The universe is one big book, and life is one big school.
Atribuídas
editar- "Além da nobre arte de conseguir fazer as coisas, existe a nobre arte de deixar as coisas por fazer. A sabedoria da vida consiste na eliminação do que não é essencial".
- - Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- - citado em "Pearls of Wisdom : A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" (1987) por Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, p. 46
- - Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- "Se consegues viver uma tarde absolutamente inútil, de maneira absolutamente inútil, então sabes viver".
- - If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
- - citado em "The Literary digest", Volume 124 - Página 32, Isaac Kaufman Funk - Funk and Wagnalls, 1938
- - If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live