Zhuang Zhou - Nature Quotes

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There is no bandit so powerful as Nature.
The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.
In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

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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.

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Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

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In the days of perfect nature, man lived together with birds and beasts, and there was no distinction of their kind... they were in a state of natural integrity.... When Sages appeared, crawling for charity and limping with duty, doubt and confusion entered men's minds.... Destruction of Tao and virtue in order to introduce charity and duty—this is the error of the Sages.

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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

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