11/10/2024
What is meant by this quote by Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), "Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
This quote from Zhuangzi (莊子: 369-286 BCE), a foundational figure in Daoist philosophy, emphasizes the limitations of human understanding and the tendency to overvalue one's own knowledge. Zhuangzi is pointing out that people often give great importance to what they already know and understand, considering it as the full measure of truth or reality. However, they fail to recognize that their knowledge is limited and that much of their existence depends on things they do not, or cannot, fully comprehend.
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