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Things Quotes by Zhuangzi
- Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence…
- The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he…
- Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought…
- Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions…
- So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said,…
- Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
- All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten.…
- A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
- The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
- To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual…
- The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing…
- If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual…
- Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius…
- Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
- Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening…
- Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for…
- The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and…
- 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…
- The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things.…
- 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.…
- Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the…
- Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in…
- Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other…
- 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle