“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of the child? One fact prevents them, according to Wust; they have broken away from the filial relationship with… — 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
