Excerpt from book Discourse On Chuang Tzu / Chapter 17 Autumn Floods
Hence, great wisdom profits from the observation of both what is distant and what is close at hand. The insignificant is not tied to small, nor is the significant tied to great, while awareness is illimitable in its measure. We can incontestably conclude that what a man knows is less than what he does not know, and that the number of years that passed since his birth are fewer than the number of years that elapsed prior to his birth. Yet, nevertheless, man cleaves to what is most minute, while aspiring to that which is most vast! Therefore, we can see that mankind is muddled and confused and unable to make sense of anything. This being so, what hope can he have of knowing whether or not the tip of a fine hair is the measure of what is most minute, or heaven and earth the measure of what is most vast?
计人之所知，不若其所不知；其生之时，不若未生之时。以其至小求穷其至大之域，是故迷乱而不能自得也。由此观之，又何以知豪末之足以定至细之倪？又何以知天地之足以穷至大之域？
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