Zhuang Zhou

Heaven does without doing through its purity, earth does without doing through its calmness.

Zhuang Zhou

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

Zhuang Zhou

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Zhuang Zhou

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.

Zhuang Zhou

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuang Zhou

If the way is made clear, it is not the way.

Zhuang Zhou

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Zhuang Zhou

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Zhuang Zhou

It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen.

Zhuang Zhou

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Zhuang Zhou