“Dignity concerns at all times the person taken in his entirety - the unity of what lies inside and outside - and describes the ideal constitution to which one strives, but which is only too infrequently reached. The higher the person wants to reach, the harder it is for him to reach this idea; for, with the one-sidedness that results from concentration on a great theme he tears open a crevice between himself and his ambition.” AmbitionHumanismGoalsAspirationPotentialHuman DignityStriving Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Between the two poles of community - blood and ideal - stretches the enormous and, to a certain degree, indeterminate public sphere, which is not quite comprehensible in either political or economic terms and where the entire risk of the humiliation of human dignity is given.” HumanismHuman DignityPublic Sphere Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft