Zhuangzi

1. Therefore it is said: The consummate person has no self; the spiritual person has no merit; the sage has no name.

2. My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To pursue the limitless with the limited is perilous!

3. When the springs dry up and fish are stranded together on land, they moisten one another with dampness and wet one another with foam — but better to forget one another in the rivers and lakes.

4. Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly…He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly was dreaming it was Zhou.

5. Relying on the heavenly pattern, I strike into the large gaps, guide through the large openings, and follow what is inherently so.

All quotations by Zhuangzi

1. From the Son of Heaven down to the common people, all alike take the cultivation of the person as the root.

2. I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

3. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it…Reason…teaches all mankind…that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

4. Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly…He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly was dreaming it was Zhou.

5. Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world.

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