I hope to do a more extended post on my reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Understand the Sick and the Healthy but I could not resist putting up this quote. What can I say I really am an existentialist at heart (wait, is that self-contradictory?!).
Let us seek not seek for anything beyond ourselves. Let us be ourselves and nothing more. Such a moment of existence may be nothing but delusion; we shall, however, choose to remain within the moment, deceived by it and deceiving it, rather than live in deception above or below the moment. Let our personal experience, even though it change from instant to instant, be reality. Let man become the bearer of these shifting images. It is preferable that he change masks a hundred times a day (at least they do belong to him) rather than wear continually the mask of the divine ruler of the world (gained by thievery) or that of the world’s bondservant (forced upon him). The hundred masks will serve in lieu of one countenance.
the de-scribe 