Zitat des Tages von Zhuangzi:
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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.