Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

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

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.