"From What-is all the world of things..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.”

“Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.”

“If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?”

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

“Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.”

“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”

“How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.”

“Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.”