Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Man is a universe within himself.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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