Lao Tzu Quotes

Lao Tzu

Profession : Philosopher

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Lao Tzu

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Lao Tzu

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lao Tzu

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Lao Tzu

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Lao Tzu

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Lao Tzu

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao Tzu