"Illness is normal", they said. "Let's learn to live with it."
"Death is normal", they said. "Let's… er…well, you know what we mean."
"Pessimism is normal."
Perhaps, but it shouldn't be. Because it is false.
Conversation
"Now do you say that you are going to
make Right your master and do away with Wrong, or make Order your master and do away with Disorder? If you do, then you have not understood the principle of heaven and earth or the nature of the ten thousand things.
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This is like saying that you are going to make Heaven your master and do away with Earth, or make Yin your master and do away with Yang. Obviously it is impossible. If men persist in talking this way without stop, they must be either fools or deceivers!"
— Zhuangzi