Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANGZIThe eyes envy the mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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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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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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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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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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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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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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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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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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