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.
ZHUANGZIThe little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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 enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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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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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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You are still guided by your expectations.
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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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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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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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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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To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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