The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Zhuangzi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”
“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”
“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.”
“The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.”
“You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless.”
“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
“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 without the pure and simple, the life of the spirit knows no rest.”
“All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!”
“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.”
“All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.”
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