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Life is limited but knowledge is not, and using the limited to pursue the limitless is fatal
Drawn from what Zhuangzi said
What Zhuangzi actually said
- Zhuangzi Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC…
My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit. To drive the limited in search of the limitless, is fatal; and the knowledge of those who do this is fatally lost.
Where this was said
↗Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889)gutenberg.org
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