Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
ZHUANGZIYou 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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