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Zhuangzi

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Zhuangzi · c. 369–286 BCE

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“He is the funniest great philosopher who ever lived — and his jokes are load-bearing. The butterfly dream, the useless tree, the cook whose blade never dulls: each story is an argument you can't quite pin down and can't ever forget.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 27

The big idea, in the book's words:

“Every judgment you make — big, small, useful, useless, even me and not-me — is made from somewhere, one perspective among countless others; see that clearly, and you can loosen your grip on your certainties and move through a changing world with the ease of a fish in water.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 27

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