Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
– Zhuang Zi
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
– Zhuang Zi
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.
– Zhuangzi
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
– Zhuangzi
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.
– Zhuangzi
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.