Sartre, in Hejinian's summation, argues that "reality, which is to say anything of which we may be conscious, produces us, who are only ourselves consciously and only conscious because there are things to be conscious of. Thus, if separated from things to be conscious of, we are ourselves indeed nothing. Reality makes us. That's what it's good for. And that's why it behooves us to pay attention to it and attend to what it asks of us."