"The flowers and the birds do not toil, they simply live. That is TAO. And for man a state of indifference and calm, the ἀταραξία not of the sceptic but of the mystic, a passive reflecting of the Eternal, is the ideal end. “The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep. And thus he can triumph over matter without injury to himself”."
Quotes by Herbert Allen Giles
"To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good."
"Put yourself behind, and the world will put you in front; put yourself in front, and the world will put you behind."
Herbert Allen GilesHerbert Allen Giles (Chinese: 翟理斯, romanized: Zhái Lǐsī; 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who held the Professorship of Chinese at the University of Cambridge ...
