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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/being-and-having-in-our-society-teaches-us-how-to-take-possession-of/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

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## More by Gabriel Marcel

> [A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/a-mystery-is-a-problem-that-encroaches-upon-itself-because-the/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/it-is-right-that-we-be-concerned-with-the-scientific-probity-of/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [“The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/the-atheist-relies-not-on-an-experience-but-on-an-idea-or-pseudo-idea/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/but-however-measurable-there-is-much-more-life-in-music-than/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/but-a-science-is-exact-to-the-extent-that-its-method-measures-up-to/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/freedom-is-a-conquest-always-partial-always-precarious-always/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/the-dynamic-element-in-my-philosophy-taken-as-a-whole-can-be-seen-as/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/you-know-you-have-loved-someone-when-you-have-glimpsed-in-them-that/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/on-a-grassroots-level-we-say-that-man-can-touch-more-than-he-can-grasp/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [I not only have a body; I am this body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/i-not-only-have-a-body-i-am-this-body/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/the-wise-man-knows-how-to-run-his-life-so-that-contemplation-is/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/hope-consists-in-asserting-that-there-is-at-the-heart-of-being-beyond/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/being-and-having-in-our-society-teaches-us-how-to-take-possession-of/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/an-individual-is-not-distinct-from-his-place-he-is-his-place/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

> [I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/i-almost-think-that-hope-is-for-the-soul-what-breathing-is-for-the/)

[Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/)

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