The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
ZHUANGZITo go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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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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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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Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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The sound of water says what I think.
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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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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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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 men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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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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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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