The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.
Peter L. BergerReligion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.
Peter L. BergerIn acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
Peter L. BergerWe also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
Peter L. Berger