“The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.”
“The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.”
“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.”
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.”
“Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”
“So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally alone, then he is lost.”