Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
ZHUANGZIMen do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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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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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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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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People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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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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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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