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Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu (c. 370-287 BCE)

“All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!”

  • Chuang Tzu’s Basic Writings (section 4, “In the World of Men”), translated by Burton Watson. (Columbia University Press, 1996).

 

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