Since men honour these delights, and lust after them, the world has gone stone-blind. Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste.
Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok.
These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. Browse additional quotations from Chuang Tzu. Refer to bibliography .