A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

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

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

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

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

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.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.