Brook Ziporyn > Quotes

“And indeed, it has been suggested that the defining moves in Chinese speculation work on a very different model, where words are part of, say, an exemplary skill-practice, meant to guide behavior in such a way as to alter perception and evaluation, rather than to describe what is really so or what is really good.”
― Brook Ziporyn, Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li

“Elevating the worthy only makes the people compete with each other.”
― Brook Ziporyn, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings

“...if we consider something big because it is bigger than something else, no thing is not big.”
― Brook Ziporyn, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings