Laozi ✓

archivist Zhou dynasty

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[Wikidata] 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism... | [Wikipedia] Laozi was a legendary Chinese philosopher considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Modern scholarship generally regards his biographical details as later inventions and his opus a collaboration of various writers, with the name Laozi, literally meanin

All Laozi Quotes

• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. Enemy
• When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. Armies
• The unyielding army will not win. Army
• When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains. Bitter
• Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used. Hundreds
• The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has… Acquired
• The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way. Eternal
• The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss! Abyss
• Obscure, like muddy waters. Inspirational
• The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril. Day
• I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great. Better
• The Way is ever nameless. Inspirational
• The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands… All
• It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler.… All
• Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When… Exhausted
• Returning is the movement of the Way. Inspirational
• The light of the Way seems dim. Dim
• The progress of the Way seems retreating. Inspirational
• The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes. Completes
• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like… Ago
• Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by… Answers
• Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through. Heaven
• The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. All
• From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all. All
• There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth. Born

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