Roniius

“I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your everyday life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

“The great has terror for its basis... the beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure...”
― Edmund Burke, On Taste On the Sublime & Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution A Letter to a Noble

“Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics