Zhuangzi Quotes
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
Watson, Burton. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings. Columbia University Press, 1964, p. 40.
This seemingly abstruse philosophical statement actually found its way into one of the major political debates of the 21st Century when the Secretary of Defense was defending the management of the Iraq War and the interpretation of intelligence. See {586062}.
Zhuang Zhou, commonly known as Zhuangzi (also rendered as Chuang Tzu), was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC during the Warring States period, a period corresponding to the summit of Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of the foundational texts of Taoism.
