The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu Quotes

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A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn ...

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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

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The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

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The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

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Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

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In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men. If you do succeed, you are bound to suffer from the yin and yang. ...

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You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

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In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to...

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Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

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I have heard that he who knows what is enough will not let himself be entangled by thoughts of gain; that he who really understands how to find satisfaction will not be afraid of other kinds of loss; and that he who practices the cultivation of what ...

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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and ...

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Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

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Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

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I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a machine heart in your breast, you've spoiled what was pure and simple; and witho...

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