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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 26 (What Comes from Without)
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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 26 (What Comes from Without)
"Catch the fish, forget the trap. Get the meaning, forget the words." Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 26 (What Comes from Without). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.
"荃者所以在魚,得魚而忘荃。 ... 言者所以在意,得意而忘言。"Original Chinese, Zhuangzi 26 (What Comes from Without). Chinese: Zhuangzi text via zh.wikisource; chapter title after Legge 1891.
Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC). Taoist storyteller of the butterfly dream, the useless tree and the cook who never dulled his knife.
Catch the fish, forget the trap. Get the meaning, forget the words.
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