From its earliest formulations — in the Tao Te Ching, the I Ching, Chuang Tzu's always astonishing writings — Taoism derails and mocks the intellect's need for the security of definition, dogma, hierarchy. Anyone who claims to understand the Tao and be a master of Tao immediately and comically exposes his fraudulence.
— Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother