![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](http://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640.jpg)
The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] - Zhuangzi [Zhuang Zhou / Chuang Tzu] (c. 369? - c. 286B.C.?): "The Human World"
/ (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)
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無用の用。［人は皆、有用なものの有用性は知っているが、無用なものの有用性を知らない。／人皆有用の用を知るも、無用の用を知ること莫き也。］ - 荘子［荘周］ (紀元前369頃? - 前286頃?): 「人間世」
/ (たとえ今すぐ役に立たなくても、後々役立つこともある。)
/ (［（漢）人皆知有用之用、而莫知無用之用也。］)
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. [Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. / Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nepal-402_640-100x75.jpg)
