How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

by Michael Schur

putting cruelty first in our list of things to avoid seems like a really good idea.

A person is a person through other people.

But we cannot forget this simple truth: we owe things to each other.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Man first exists: he materializes in the world, encounters himself, and only afterwards defines himself. If man as existentialists conceive of him cannot be defined, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself.