Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
ZHUANGZIWhen people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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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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The true man breathes with his heels.
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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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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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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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