All these come from Tormod Kinnes who has selected about 340 quotations and abstracts which he has annotated
  http://oaks.nvg.org/yutang2.html

Thinking is an art, and not a science. [411]

The feeling of the average man, even of the educated person, is that philosophy is a "subject" which he can best afford to go without. [413]

There is . . . a distinction between logical thinking and reasonable thinking, which may be also expressed as the difference between academic thinking and poetic thinking. [415]

The Sage talks about life, as he is directly aware of it; the Talented Ones talk about the Sage's words and the stupid ones argue about the words of the Talented Ones. [417]

The more [man] analyzes, the more he has need to define. [418]

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. [421]

We can . . . conceive of reasonable husbands and wives who quarrel reasonably and then patch up reasonably. [422]

The Spirit of Reasonableness is the essence and best side of Chinese civilization. [422]

To be 'in accord with human nature' [to be human], is a greater consideration than to be logical. [422 abr]

Humanized thinking is just reasonable thinking. [423]

Try to maintain a sane balance in an ever-changing sea of conflicting impulses, feelings, and desires. [424]

The opposite of the reasonable spirit is fanaticism and dogmatism of all sorts in thought and behavior. [424]

I am less terrified by the theories of Fascism and Communism than by the fanatical spirit which infuses them. [425]

Only an insane type of mind can erect the state into a god and make of it a fetish to swallow up the individual's right of thinking, feeling and the pursuit of happiness. [425]