Quotes by Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is o — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of thing — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worr — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insuffic — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has d — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of go — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby mak — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is p — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, p — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that o — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thi — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu