These Fish Are Happy
（But How Do You Know That？）
By Zhuangzi [Chuang Tze]
One day Zhuangzi and Huizi are strolling on Bridge Hao.
Zhuangzi ： "Look how happy the fish are just swimming around in the river."
Huizi ： "How do you know they are happy？ You are not a fish."
Zhuangzi： "And you are not me. How do you know I don't know the fish are happy？"
Huizi： "Of course I'm not you， and I don't know what you think；
But I do know that you're not a fish，
and so you couldn't possibly know the fish are happy."
Zhuangzi： "Look， when you asked me how I knew the fish were happy，
you already knew that I knew the fish were happy.
I knew it from my feelings standing on this bridge.