Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. All that is necessary for the #‎ triumph of #‎ evil is that good people do nothing. Our #‎ purpose is not to make a living but a# life - a worthy, well-rounded, useful life. #‎ Morality is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.