Category Quotations

Zhuangzi says: “Everything has its “that,” everything has its “this.” From the point of view of “that” you cannot see it, but through understanding you can know

Zhuangzi says: “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.”

Zhuangzi says: “During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this…

Zhuangzi says: “Don’t you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.”

Zhuangzi says: “Don’t go in and hide; don’t come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.”

Zhuangzi says: “Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not,…

Zhuangzi says: “Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse – harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped – virtue is all…

Zhuangzi says: “All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!”

Zhuangzi says: “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…

Zhuangzi says: “All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be…