“A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.”

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

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.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

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.

The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to ‘the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.’

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

There’s simply too much fuss about myself.

Don’t confuse meaning with truth.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.