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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
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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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
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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Himself Mindset Mirror Perfection Regret
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
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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Knowledge Known Perfection Philosophy Religious Spirituality Study True Unknown
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
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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Argument Clear Difference Need Right
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
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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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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