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Zhuangzi quotes on equality

2 verified English passages where Zhuangzi’ s thought meets questions of equality.

Zhuangzi on equality

Zhuangzi (c. 369–c. 286 BCE) approaches equality within Daoism. Its transformations and dream stories encourage wandering freely, accepting change, and resisting the urge to impose one perspective as final. Systematically, the teaching links skepticism, spontaneity, perspectivism into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets equality most directly—useful for searches such as “zhuangzi quotes on equality.”

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What did Zhuangzi say about equality?

The quotations below are the archive’s curated answer: English renderings selected for clarity and attribution, not a complete corpus.

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Related themes: Philosophy , Self , Knowledge , Freedom , Life , Wisdom .

  1. 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.
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    Zhuangzi, Qiwulun
  2. Heaven and earth were born together with me, and the myriad things and I are one.