“ All men can be put to some use; I alone am intractable and boorish. ”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. copy citation
Author | Lao Tzu |
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Source | Tao Te Ching |
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Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Arthur Waley |
Weblink | https://terebess.hu/english/tao/waley.html |
Context
“So dull am I.
The world is full of people that shine;
I alone am dark.
They look lively and self-assured;
I alone depressed.
(I seem unsettled as the ocean;
Blown adrift, never brought to a stop.)
All men can be put to some use;
I alone am intractable and boorish.
But wherein I most am different from men
Is that I prize no sustenance that comes not from the Mother's breast.
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Such the scope of the All-pervading Power.
That it alone can act through the Way.”
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