The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Publication of the Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy ed. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. The Mystery of Being Vol.

Though often regarded as the first French existentialist he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre preferring the term Philosophy of Existence to define his own thought. He focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. In addition to being a playwright and philosopher Marcel was also a music critic.