All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
ZHUANGZIA path is made by walking on it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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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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Human 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!
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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.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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