"Above ground, I'll be eaten by the crows and kites; below ground, I'll be eaten by the ants and molecrickets. You rob the one of them to give to the other; how come you like them so much better?"

"The true man of Tao lives in the world, but is not of the world."

"The unity and my saying it make two. The two and their unity make three. Starting from here, even a clever mathematician couldn't get it, much less an ordinary person! If going from nothing to somethi…"

"The greatest knowledge is to know that you know nothing."

"If you try to make it the same, you will only confuse it more."