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.
ZHUANGZIOnly fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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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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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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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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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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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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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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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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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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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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