What Has To Be Given Up Is

I Do, Indeed, Close My Door At Times And Surrender Myself To A Book, But Only Because I Can Open The Door Again And See A Human Face Looking At Me.

Power Abdicates Only Under The Stress Of Counter-power.

The Philosophical Anthropologist ... Can Know The Wholeness Of The Person And Through It The Wholeness Of Man Only When He Does Not Leave His Subjectivity Out And Does Not Remain An Untouched Observer.

Every Man's Foremost Task Is The Actualization Of His Unique, Unprecedented And Never-recurring Potentialities, And Not The Repetition Of Something That Another, And Be It Even The Greatest, Has Already Achieved.

This Is The Eternal Origin Of Art That A Human Being Confronts A Form That Wants To Become A Work Through Him. Not A Figment Of His Soul But Something That Appears To The Soul And Demands The Soul's Creative Power. What Is Required Is A Deed That A Man Does With His Whole Being.