Ambition is the death of thought. (p. 77e)

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. (p. 119)

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. (p. 75e)

Je prefere la pensee a l'action, une idee a une affaire, la contemplation au mouvement.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.