Zhuang Zhou

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Zhuang Zhou

Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

Zhuang Zhou

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

He who regards all things as one is a companion of nature.

Zhuang Zhou

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Zhuang Zhou