More from Tao Te Ching
- To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
- Without leaving your home, you can know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you can see the ways of heaven. The further you go, the less you know. Thus the wise man knows without traveling, Sees without looking, Works without doing.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Last reviewed 2026-07-28