“For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.” MenResponsibilitySubjectsFieldsFindingsHighestExistentialEmergence Book:The Lonergan Reader Source: The Lonergan Reader
“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.” Life IsFallProcessSubjectsAchievementFinishedThis LifeSlipsPrecarious Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection