Zhuangzi Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Zhuangzi:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#4b5dde5c

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#1a00e768

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#21f139cd

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#c0ac1df2

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#691d4aee

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#cf866750

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.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#5fb3b4c5

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#ca5a51a4

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#47bd32a6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#f506d338

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#83a730c0

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#4a10fc4b

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.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#46631ff5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#84f62b0f

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
~Zhuangzi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/zhuangzi-quotes/#2acd1bf7

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