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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." Laozi”
― Will Buckingham, The Philosophy Book

“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

“My contention is that all the highest values of humanity have been emptied of this will—that the values of décadence, of nihilism, now prevail under the holiest names.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

“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

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

“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