Quotations by Zhuangzi

How do I know that what I call knowing is not really ignorance, and what I call ignorance not really knowing?

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Skepticism80%

I no longer look with my eyes but with my spirit, and the blade follows of itself the natural openings.

• On Scope of action, their position: What is up to us90%

Life and death follow each other like day and night. Why should I grieve over it?

• On Death, their position: Freeing ourselves from the fear85%

See how the fish come out and dart about at their ease: that is the happiness of fish!

• On Humanity's place in nature, their position: Member among others85%

The perfect sage uses his heart like a mirror: he goes out to meet nothing and welcomes nothing, he responds and does not retain.

• On Interiority, their position: The examined life75%

The trap is for catching fish: once the fish is caught, the trap is forgotten. Words are for grasping the idea: once the idea is grasped, the words are forgotten.

• On The meaning of words, their position: Use theory70%

There is no place where the dao is not.

• On Where the sacred resides, their position: Immanence88%

Whoever uses machines does all his work mechanically; whoever does his work mechanically grows a machine heart.

• On Relation to technology, their position: Techno-criticism80%