man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
such is the first principle of existentialism...
man is at the start of a plan which is aware of itself,
rather than a patch of moss, a piece of garbage,
or a cauliflower; nothing exists prior to this plan;
there is nothing in heaven; man will be what he
will have planned to be.
-jean-paul sartre
existentialism and human existence
1957