Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

— Zhuangzi

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument. Forget the years; forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

— Zhuangzi

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

— Zhuangzi

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

— Zhuangzi

The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

— Zhuangzi

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

— Zhuangzi

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

— Zhuangzi

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

— Zhuangzi

The petty thief is imprisoned, but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

— Zhuangzi

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

— Zhuangzi