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> [Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/music-at-times-is-more-like-perfume-than-mathematics/)

[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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