“Man's life cannot "be lived" by repeating the pattern of his species; he must live. Man is the only animal that can be bored, that can be discontented, that can feel evicted from paradise. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.