Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
ZHUANGZIThe greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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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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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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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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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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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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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.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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