"Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly,
flittering hither and thither,
to all intents and purposes
a butterfly...
suddenly I awoke...
Now I do not know whether
I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly
dreaming I am a man."
Zhuangzi was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred Schools of Thought philosophical summit of chinese thought - his name is sometimes spelled Chuang Tsu, Chuang Tzu, Zhuang Tze, Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse, Chuangtze or – in English – Master Chuang.
