Famous Quotes by Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching

Below are famous quotes by Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching - Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC).

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

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