The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.