To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZIThe eyes envy the mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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If 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.
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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.
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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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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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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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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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