Philosophy Quote by Zhuangzi — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”

“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.”

“He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without ever getting straightened out; the biggest fool will end his life without ever seeing the light. If three men are traveling along and one is confused, they will still get where they are going - because confusion is in the minority. But if two of them are confused, then they can walk until they are exhausted and never get anywhere - because confusion is in the majority.”

“When there is both name and reality,”

“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”

“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.”

“Pay attention to me.”

“Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.”

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”