Just as man’s physical survival depends on his own effort, so does his
psychological survival. Man faces two corollary, interdependent fields of
action in which a constant exercise of choice and a constant creative process
are demanded of him: the world around him and his own soul (by “soul,” I mean
his consciousness). Just as he has to produce the material values he needs to
sustain his life, so he has to acquire the values of character that enable him
to sustain it and that make his life worth living. He is born without the
knowledge of either. He has to discover both—and translate them into
reality—and survive by shaping the world and himself in the image of his
values.