The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.