All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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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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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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The true man breathes with his 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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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