Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
ZHUANGZIThe perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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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 sound of water says what I think.
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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
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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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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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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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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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