The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.” — Zhuangzi Government Copy Share Image
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi Futility Copy Share Image
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth,… — Zhuangzi Earth Copy Share Image
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume… — Zhuangzi Human life Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was… — Zhuangzi Butterfly Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,… — Zhuangzi Creation Copy Share Image
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone… — Zhuangzi Accumulation Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot… — Zhuangzi Alive Copy Share Image
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that… — Zhuangzi Argument Copy Share Image
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations… — Zhuangzi Body Copy Share Image
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on… — Zhuangzi Deep roots Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered… — Zhuangzi Angry Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I… — Zhuangzi Butterfly Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Ability Copy Share Image
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two… — Zhuangzi Action Copy Share Image
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
