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… — 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 Image
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
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 Image
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
