The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
ZHUANGZIHe 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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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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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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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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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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