"The inauthentic man makes uncritical assumptions, and his thoughts are preoccupied with everyday concerns. His joy is always at the mercy of what happens externally. In a sense the newspaper or television does his thinking for him. His thought-life is merely an exercise in distraction to avoid restlessness or boredom, a kind of continual woolgathering...Life is reduced to a mere passing of time...The inauthentic man seeks safety in normality. He denies his uniqueness by becoming "average." ...He believes as he is expected to believe, in accordance with societal convention. Surpressing the urge to excel, he levels himself downward and becomes "everyman." He abandons responsibility for his decisions and hence for his existence."
- R.C. Sproul on Martin Heidegger's "Inauthentic Man"
"Scripture frequently records the discomfort of the guilty who seek shelter from God's sight, calling on the hills to cover them. Sinful man does not want God to look at him; he wants God to overlook him. Yet from a biblical perspective the forgiven sinner knows no blessing equal to God's benevolent gaze; he enjoys the light of God's countenance upon him and wants God to make his face shine upon him."
- R.C. Sproul on Jean-Paul Sartre's idea of subjectivity
The Consequences of Ideas, 2000, Crossway
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