Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
ZHUANGZIHuman 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!
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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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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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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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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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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