Category Quotations

Zhuangzi says: “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.”

Zhuangzi says: “We can’t expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone – the understanding has them, too.”

Zhuangzi says: “To guard yourself against thieves who slash open suitcases, rifle through bags and smash open boxes, one should strap the bags and lock them. The world at large knows that this shows wisdom. However, when a master thief…

Zhuangzi says: “To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.”

Zhuangzi says: “Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.”

Zhuangzi says: “The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

Zhuangzi says: “The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror – going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.”

Zhuangzi says: “The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.”

Zhuangzi says: “The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves, they are attracted…

Zhuangzi says: “People who excuse their faults and claim they didn’t deserved to be punished – there are lots of them. But those who don’t excuse their faults and admit they didn’t deserve to be spared – they are few.”