Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
ZHUANGZIFish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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He 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.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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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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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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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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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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