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]