Home›Tao Te Ching›Literary form›aphorism-collectionBrowse Byaphorism-collectionThis page groups scripture portions by the kind of writing they actually are. Wikipedia notes that religious texts "often feature a compilation or discussion of beliefs, ritual practices, moral commandments and laws, ethical conduct, spiritual aspirations, and admonitions for fostering a religious community." Browsing by literary form lets a visitor compare a law code against a hymn or a narrative within the same scripture.Factsaphorism-collectionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedScripture Portions 1aphorism-collectionFilter Results83 entriesOriginates In LanguageAllClassical Chinese (83)Authored ByAllLaozi (83)Attributed ToAllLaozi (83)Belongs To TraditionAllTaoism (83)Parent ScriptureAllTao Te Ching (83)LanguageAllClassical Chinese (83)ThemeAllA four-stage account of how anything comes to be what it is (1)A list of paradoxes, and laughter offered as evidence (1)A ranking of rulers in which invisibility is best (1)A survey of interventions and their opposite results (1)A victory treated as a funeral (1)Blandness as the mark of what is inexhaustible (1)Diplomacy conducted from the low ground (1)Emptiness as an inexhaustible source, older than the gods (1)Excellence that looks like its opposite (1)Greatness accomplished by refusing to be great (1)Knowledge that does not require going anywhere (1)Martial excellence defined entirely by what it does not do (1)Non-action as the closing statement of the first part (1)Rulers who name themselves by words of loss (1)Scale: dealing with a thing while it is still small (1)Self-display as the exact thing that defeats itself (1)Self-interest served by setting the self aside (1)Skill that leaves no trace, and nobody written off (1)Small sight and soft holding named as the strong positions (1)Softness entering where there is no opening (1)Something real inside what cannot be pinned down (1)Stimulation as a form of impairment (1)Subtraction as a discipline, set against accumulation (1)The clearest political indictment in the book (1)The evidence of corpses, used as an argument for softness (1)The low position as the source of the high one (1)The way as a refuge that does not exclude the guilty (1)Three questions about what a life is being spent on (1)Two kinds of courage, and a net that nothing escapes (1)War fought defensively, and grief as the deciding factor (1)Weight and stillness as the ground of authority (1)What happens to a population that has stopped being afraid (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 83Chapter 1aphorism-collectionChapter 10aphorism-collectionChapter 11aphorism-collectionChapter 12aphorism-collectionChapter 13aphorism-collectionChapter 14aphorism-collectionChapter 15aphorism-collectionChapter 16aphorism-collectionChapter 17aphorism-collectionChapter 18aphorism-collectionChapter 19aphorism-collectionChapter 2aphorism-collectionChapter 20aphorism-collectionChapter 21aphorism-collectionChapter 22aphorism-collectionChapter 23aphorism-collectionChapter 24aphorism-collectionChapter 25aphorism-collectionChapter 26aphorism-collectionChapter 27aphorism-collectionChapter 28aphorism-collectionChapter 29aphorism-collectionChapter 3aphorism-collectionChapter 30aphorism-collectionChapter 31aphorism-collectionChapter 32aphorism-collectionChapter 33aphorism-collectionChapter 34aphorism-collectionChapter 35aphorism-collectionChapter 36aphorism-collectionChapter 37aphorism-collectionChapter 38aphorism-collectionChapter 39aphorism-collectionChapter 4aphorism-collectionChapter 40aphorism-collectionChapter 41aphorism-collectionChapter 42aphorism-collectionChapter 43aphorism-collectionChapter 44aphorism-collectionChapter 45aphorism-collectionChapter 46aphorism-collectionChapter 47aphorism-collectionChapter 48aphorism-collectionChapter 49aphorism-collectionChapter 5aphorism-collectionChapter 50aphorism-collectionChapter 51aphorism-collectionChapter 52aphorism-collectionChapter 53aphorism-collectionChapter 54aphorism-collectionChapter 55aphorism-collectionChapter 56aphorism-collectionChapter 57aphorism-collectionChapter 58aphorism-collectionChapter 59aphorism-collectionChapter 6aphorism-collectionChapter 60aphorism-collectionChapter 61aphorism-collectionChapter 62aphorism-collectionChapter 63aphorism-collectionChapter 64aphorism-collectionChapter 65aphorism-collectionChapter 66aphorism-collectionChapter 67aphorism-collectionChapter 68aphorism-collectionChapter 69aphorism-collectionChapter 7aphorism-collectionChapter 70aphorism-collectionChapter 71aphorism-collectionChapter 72aphorism-collectionChapter 73aphorism-collectionChapter 74aphorism-collectionChapter 75aphorism-collectionChapter 76aphorism-collectionChapter 77aphorism-collectionChapter 78aphorism-collectionChapter 79aphorism-collectionChapter 8aphorism-collectionChapter 80aphorism-collectionChapter 81aphorism-collectionChapter 9aphorism-collectionDao Jingaphorism-collectionDe Jingaphorism-collectionSources1. 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