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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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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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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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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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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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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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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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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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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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