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?
ZHUANGZIWhere can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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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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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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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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He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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