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Chuang Tzu Quotes



Quotes by Chuang Tzu - (20 quotes)

Chuang Tzu - From the Beauty category:

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. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Beginning category:

Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Doubt category:

The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Dreams category:

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Fame category:

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Flow category:

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Happiness category:

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Impotence category:

-in fourth century BC...
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Journey category:

Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Joy category:

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Knowledge category:

-in fourth century BC...
A man who knows he is fool is not a great fool. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Knowledge category:

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Life category:

The true man breathes with his heels. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Possessions category:

It receives but does not keep. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Questions category:

You will always find an answer in the sound of water. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Repose category:

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 of the universe, the speculum of all creation. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Time category:

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Understanding category:

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Wisdom category:

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. (Chuang Tzu)

Chuang Tzu - From the Words category:

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words? He is the one I would like to talk to. (Chuang Tzu)