The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
ZHUANGZIHe who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The sound of water says what I think.
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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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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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