358 Quotes by Zhuangzi

There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.