Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANGZIThe men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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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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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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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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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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