Yang Tse

Yang Tse (420-360 BC) was a Chinese Taoist philosopher of the school of hedonism, one of the hundred schools of Chinese philosophy. His theories later were integrated into mainstream Taoism.

Wisdom & Quotes

• One person dies at the age of ten, another at the age of one hundred. Perfect saints die, and so do dangerous fools. ...Once dead , they are moulding bones. As moulding bones, they are equal. Who can tell the difference between them ? Let us therefore grasp life's moment - what is the point of worrying about the time after death?

- Lieh-tsu

• If everyone would refrain from sacrificing even one single hair, and if everyone would refrain from benefiting the world, the world would be in order.

-On the "Yang Tse Chapter" of Leih Tzu ( the Ch'ung-hsu Chih-te Chen-ching which means Pure Classic of the Perfect Virtue of Simplicity and Vacuity)

Diogenes the Cynic