Zhuangzi
Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC and the pivotal figure of classical philosophical Daoism; of the compiled Zhuangzi, only the Inner Chapters (1 to 7) are attributed to his lifetime.
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Being adaptable is often what destroys a thing; being unable to do something can keep it out of the snare
The adaptability of a thing is oft-times its bane. The inability of the yak to catch mice saves it from the snare which is fatal to the wild cat.
gutenberg.orgSaid c. 350–301 BCEThis on korrents
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Being adaptable is often what destroys a thing; being unable to do something can keep it out of the snare
The adaptability of a thing is oft-times its bane. The inability of the yak to catch mice saves it from the snare which is fatal to the wild cat.
Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Said c. 350–301 BCE
Having dreamt he was a butterfly, he cannot tell whether he is a man who dreamt or a butterfly dreaming it is a man
Now 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.
Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Said c. 350–301 BCE
Life is limited but knowledge is not, and using the limited to pursue the limitless is fatal
My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit. To drive the limited in search of the limitless, is fatal; and the knowledge of those who do this is fatally lost.
Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Said c. 350–301 BCE
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Virtue should prevail and outward form be forgotten, yet people forget what matters and remember what does not
Thus it is that virtue should prevail and outward form be forgotten. But mankind forgets not that which is to be forgotten, forgetting that which is not to be forgotten.
Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Said c. 350–301 BCE
A person without passions is one who does not let good and evil disturb him and accepts whatever happens
By a man without passions I mean one who does not permit good and evil to disturb his internal economy, but rather falls in with whatever happens, as a matter of course, and does not add to the sum of his mortality.
Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Said c. 350–301 BCE
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