You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
ZHUANGZIIf you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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