Famous Quotes / Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang: "The forces of idealism and realism tug at each other in all human activities, personal, social and national, and real progress is made possible by the proper mix of these two ingredients, so that the clay is kept in the ideal pliable, plastic condition, half moist and half dry, not hardened and unmanageable, nor dissolving into mud."
Activities | Clay | Condition | Dissolving |
Each | Forces | Half | Hardened |
Human | Ideal | Idealism | Ingredients |
Into | Kept | Made | Moist |
National | Other | Personal | Plastic |
Pliable | Possible | Progress | Proper |
Real | Realism | Social | These |
Unmanageable |