The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
ZHUANGZIHorses 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.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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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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I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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The sound of water says what I think.
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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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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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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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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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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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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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