Category: Zhuangzi

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Wisdom Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | wisdom

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

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Nature Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | nature

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

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music Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | music

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

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knowledge Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | knowledge

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

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knowledge Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | knowledge

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.

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happiness Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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education Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | education

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

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Dreams Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi | dreams

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

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Zhuangzi

Quote from Zhuangzi, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings

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.

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The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu Zhuangzi

Quote from Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of 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.

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