Quote

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

Laozi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Tao
Taoism
Named
Eternity
Eternal
Told
Name
Names

More quotes by Laozi

Image
The real is empty and the empty real
Laozi
Image
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Laozi
Image
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.
Laozi
Image
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true power.
Laozi
Image
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.
Laozi
Image
Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.
Laozi
Image
Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
Laozi
Image
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
Laozi
Image
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Laozi
Image
Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
Laozi
Image
Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
Laozi
Image
The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
Laozi
Image
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Laozi
Image
Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Laozi
Image
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
Laozi
Image
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
Laozi
Image
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.
Laozi
Image
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
Laozi
Image
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Laozi
Image
Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
Laozi