“Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you… — Zhuangzi Danger Copy Share Image
“He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.” — Zhuangzi Feudal Copy Share Image
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point. — Zhuangzi Birth Copy Share Image
The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with… — Zhuangzi Dealing with people Copy Share Image
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Zhuangzi Communication Copy Share Image
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves. — Zhuangzi Greatness Copy Share Image
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop. — Zhuangzi Conflict Copy Share Image
Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end,… — Zhuangzi Biology Copy Share Image
My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way… — Zhuangzi Caterpillar Copy Share Image
If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any… — Zhuangzi Creator Copy Share Image
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to… — Zhuangzi Action Copy Share Image
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend… — Zhuangzi Creation Copy Share Image
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to… — Zhuangzi Children Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Argument Copy Share Image
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond… — Zhuangzi Greatness Copy Share Image
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the… — Zhuangzi Ancient Copy Share Image
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the… — Zhuangzi Caring Copy Share Image
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness. — Zhuangzi Calmness Copy Share Image
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing. — Zhuangzi Beginning Copy Share Image
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Calmness Copy Share Image
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is… — Zhuangzi Action Copy Share Image
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman –… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind;… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given… — Zhuangzi Ants Copy Share Image
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do… — Zhuangzi Awakening Copy Share Image
The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make… — Zhuangzi Mind Copy Share Image
The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there… — Zhuangzi Computers Copy Share Image
