Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
ZHUANGZIFish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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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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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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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 honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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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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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.
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