"What is properly human is the capacity to step back from oneself — to take a distance from one's own drives, one's own history, one's own perspective — and to ask whether what one is doing is good. No animal can call itself into question."
"What is properly human is the capacity to step back from oneself — to take a distance from one's own drives, one's own history, one's own perspective — and to ask whether what one is doing is good. No animal can call itself into question."