Man`s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Man`s main task is to give birth to himself.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one`s own self.