Zhuang Zhou

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

Zhuang Zhou

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views – then the world will be governed.

Zhuang Zhou

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Zhuang Zhou

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

Zhuang Zhou

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Zhuang Zhou

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Zhuang Zhou

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Zhuang Zhou

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Zhuang Zhou

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Zhuang Zhou

Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

Zhuang Zhou