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Taoism Quotes by Zhuangzi
- Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so…
- The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved…
- Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He…
- Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
- Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in…
- Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He…
- If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes.…
- If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror…
- If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort…
- When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center…
- Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao.…
- Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
- By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
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- The purest white seems stained. — Laozi
- The grandest virtue seems deficient. — Laozi
- The sturdiest virtue seems fragile. — Laozi
- The most fundamental seems fickle. — Laozi
- The perfect square lacks corners. — Laozi
- The highest tone is hard to hear. — Laozi
- The great image lacks shape. — Laozi
- Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining. — Laozi
- What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening. — Laozi