The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.