Great knowledge is broad and calm; small knowledge is narrow and restless.

• 

  The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no merit; the sage has no name.

• 

  I do not know whether Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly is dreaming it is Zhuang Zhou.

• 

  My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To use what is limited in pursuit of what is limitless is perilous.

• 

  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

• 

  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

• 

  To understand the world, one must sometimes turn away from it.

All quotes