Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
ZHUANGZIThe space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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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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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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