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.
Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Mark D. Morelli, Elizabeth A. Morelli (1997). “The Lonergan Reader”, p.390, University of Toronto Press