358 Quotes by Zhuangzi

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

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

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.