Quotes

Do not let the mind stop in any one place.

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.

There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can surpass it.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it.

Do not call yourself a philosopher; show your principles by your actions.

It is not he who reviles you or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion about these things as being insulting.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself.

Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.

Every soul is immortal.