Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.