"知止乎其所不能知，至矣。若有不即是者，天鈞敗之。"
— Zhuangzi
January 1, 1970
Scroll for Details
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
Mystics
Absurdists
Philosophers from China
Monists
Chinese logicians
Original Language: English
Sources
To know to stop where they cannot arrive by means of knowledge is the highest attainment. Those who cannot do this will be destroyed on the lathe of Heaven. — Ch. 23, sect. 7 (tr. James Legge, 1891) — To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — Quoted as the epigraph to Ch. 3 of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven (1971), based on Legge's translation; Le Guin was subsequently informed that thi
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zhuangzi
To know to stop where they cannot arrive by means of knowledge is the highest attainment. Those who cannot do this will be destroyed on the lathe of Heaven. — Ch. 23, sect. 7 (tr. James Legge, 1891) — To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — Quoted as the epigraph to Ch. 3 of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven (1971), based on Legge's translation; Le Guin was subsequently informed that thi