Valentin Sofronie

“The Jitong chapter of the Book of Rites says, “There are three ways of caring for one’s parents: when they are alive, look after them; when they are deceased, tend to the death rites; when the death rites have been completed, offer them sacrifice.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“The Master said, “If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Du Bois is saying that we must believe in the possibility of a fuller life, or in the possibility of progress, to be able to progress at all.”
― Will Buckingham, The Philosophy Book

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automaton of duty?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist