09 March 2010

Montherlant on the Supreme Good

"Intelligence, heroism, ambition, art and work, all these things certainly have some value. But for me they are of secondary importance--definitely secondary--compared to what I have always called, and always shall call, the Supreme Good, which is loving someone."

Henry de Montherlant, Explicit Mysterium

2 comments:

  1. Loving someone as the supreme good is interesting, and perhaps worthy for the needs of the self on some level. However, I wonder what the Trojans would call the "supreme good" given the what occurs in the Homeric tale about Paris's love for Helen.

    Not to be a bitter cynic, but it seems like the supreme good and my internal misery are indelibly linked.

    Still, the post got me thinking...thanks.

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  2. Amen. Thank you for posting.

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