Sublime

Being Martin is not a final identity but consists in striving to be Martin, striving to maintain or transform the relations of priority among my practical identities in the form of an existential identity.

When you take away a common moral order and tell everybody to find their own definition of the mystery of life, most people will come up empty.

Percy argues that most go through life witnessing not the actual world but their preconceptions of it.

I also tried to reduce Jack's isolation, not by pointing out the social opportunities available to him, but instead by focusing on the major obstacles to intimate friendships: his shame and belief that others would regard him as a foolish man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

relationship-driven.

disagreements. The