Quotes by Chuang Tzu

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

The sound of water says what I think.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly...Suddenly I awoke...Now, I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.