c. 369–286 BCE · Chinese (Daoist)
The playful skeptic of fixed perspectives and the famous butterfly dream.
昔者莊周夢為蝴蝶
Original (Chinese)
“Once Zhuang Zhou dreamt he was a butterfly ... now he does not know whether he is a man dreaming he is a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.”
Zhuangzi, ch. 2 (Qiwulun)
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