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.
ZHUANGZIA battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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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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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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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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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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