Gabriel Marcel Quotes

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  • I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

  • Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  • Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

    Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”
  • An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

  • A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

  • I not only have a body; I am this body.

  • 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.

  • You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

  • Metaphysics is a science.

  • Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

  • The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

    Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”
  • It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  • But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  • Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  • But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

  • This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

  • The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

  • ... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

  • On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

  • Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

    Music   Math   Scent  
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