Quotes of Chuang Tzu - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ When the heart is at peace, “for” and “against” are forgotten. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words reply on vain show, then we have rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Moists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ A path is made by walking on it. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ 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

“ I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season. ”

- Chuang tzu
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