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- From: GECKO <gecko@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Wisdom Galore!
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:42:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.084202.19519@zooid.guild.org>
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC123G@UMASS.EDU> writes:
- > If you know of a philosopher with more wisdom than Ayn Rand please
- >enlighten me.
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- Chuang Tzu comes to mind...
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- - GECKO
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- "Once a man receives this fixed bodily form, he holds on to it,
- waiting for the end. Sometimes clashing with things, sometimes
- bending before them, he runs his course like a galloping steed,
- and nothing can stop him. Is he not pathetic? Sweating and
- laboring to the end of his days and never seeing his accomplish-
- ments, utterly exhausting himself and never knowing where to look
- for rest--can you help pitying him? I'm not dead yet! he says, but
- what good is that? His body decays, his mind follows it--can you
- deny that this is a great sorrow? Man's life has always been a
- muddle like this. How could I be the only muddled one, and other
- me not muddled?"
- - Chuang Tzu (Watson's translation)
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