Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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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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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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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 the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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