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Laozi580–501 BC

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.

Laozi on philosophy

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, tr. Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1972)

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