| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...senses as a butterfly. I was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and then I was myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then...whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. So wrote the famous ' Butterfly ' Chuang, the Chinese philosopher of the fifth and fourth centuries before... | |
| 1884 - 486 pages
...individuality as 'a man. Suddenly I awaked ; and there I lay myself again. I do not know whether I was then dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that it is a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier; and the transition... | |
| Herbert Allen Giles - 1884 - 284 pages
...individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awaked ; and there I lay, myself again. I do not know whether I was then dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that it is a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier ; and the transition... | |
| Zhuangzi - 1889 - 512 pages
...Tzii, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a...whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called Metempsychosis.... | |
| Henri Cordier - 1905 - 424 pages
...Suddenly I awaited, and there 1 lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming 1 was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I was a man. л Taoism acquired but a faint hold over the practical Chinese. Confucianism, a sort of... | |
| Zhuangzi - 1906 - 124 pages
...Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a...whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called metempsychosis.... | |
| Henri Cordier - 1906 - 432 pages
...I was a butterfly... Suddenly I awaked, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether 1 was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I was a man. « Taoism acquired but a faint bold over the practical Chinese. Confucianism, a sort of... | |
| Charles Johnston - 1912 - 430 pages
...man. Suddenly I awoke, and there I lay, a man once more. And now I know not whether I then dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming myself a man." II A MONGOLIAN MTJSIC COMEDY A WITTY person has recorded the belief that there have... | |
| William Edward Soothill - 1913 - 348 pages
...awoke, and came to myself, the veritable Chuang Chou. Now I do not know whether it was then I dreamt I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Between me and the butterfly there must be a difference. This is an instance of transformation." '... | |
| George Foot Moore - 1914 - 104 pages
...who conceives metempsychosis accordingly. In an often quoted passage he writes: " Once upon a time I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither....whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called metempsychosis."... | |
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