If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.