Attribuée à Laozi
«If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Laozi
Appears in no chapter of the Daodejing nor in any ancient source on Laozi. It has circulated online since the early 21st century; its psychological vocabulary ("depressed", "anxious") is modern.
Source: Chinese Text Project. «Dao De Jing» (道德經), texto chino con traducción de James Legge en paralelo.
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de Laozi
«The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.»
Daodejing, capítulo 1 (trad. inglesa de Legge, 1891)
«The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place.»
Daodejing, capítulo 8
«The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends.»
Daodejing, capítulo 11