Chuangtzu Famous Quotes
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy.
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without."
"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
"Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words."
"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."
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuangtzu Quotations
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
"Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury."
Steve Pershing
"As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool."
Akhenaton
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Themistocles
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
Mortimer Adler
"This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."
William Kunstler
"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
Voltaire