To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZIEach one’s destiny cannot be altered.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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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.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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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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