A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

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

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.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.