Man is not born with a soul, but with the potential for one. To realize this potential he has to find his real higher self, to escape the limitations of his (unreal) empirical self. One route to this self-discovery is love, through which ‘many men first come to know of their own real nature, and to be convinced that they possess a soul’: 人不是生来就有灵魂的，但具有灵魂的潜力。要实现这种潜力，他必须找到真正的更高自我，摆脱（不真实的）经验自我的局限。实现自我发现的一条途径是爱，通过爱，​“许多人首先了解了自己的真实本性，并确信自己拥有灵魂”​ Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius