#paradox

If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

Because it has no desires, it can be called small. Because all things return to it, it can be called great.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the rigid: everyone knows this, yet no one can put it into practice.

The backward law: the more you strive for happiness, the further away it retreats.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Passions often engender their opposites: avarice sometimes produces prodigality, and prodigality avarice; one is often firm from weakness, and daring from timidity.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities at all.

The most subtle folly is produced by the most subtle wisdom.

There is no greater mystery than this: we are Reality itself, yet we seek Reality elsewhere.

The torch of chaos and doubt is what the sage steers by.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.