All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
ZHUANGZIThe greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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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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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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 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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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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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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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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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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