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. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem.… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
“The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
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 Copy Share
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share
