Pope John Paul II gave a noteworthy speech at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris about the value of culture, affirming its foundation in man whose spiritual dimension transcends nature. He said: “Man who, in the visible world, is the only ontic subject of culture , is also its only object and its term. Culture is that through which man as man becomes more man, ‘is’ more, has more access to ‘being.’ The fundamental distinction between what man is and what he has, between being and having, has its foundation there too. Culture is always in an essential and necessary relationship to what man is, whereas its relationship to what he has, to his ‘having,’ is not secondary, but entirely relative. All man's ‘having’ is important for culture, is a factor creative of culture, only in the extent to which man, through his ‘having,’ can at the same time ‘be’ more fully as a man, become more fully a man in all the dimensions of his existence, in everything that characterizes his humanity.”