Valentin Sofronie

“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

“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

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