Gabriel Marcel Quotes
- Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
- The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
- I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and…
- Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which…
- A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling…
- On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
- Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
- The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
- But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
- An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
- You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
- Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
- It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
- Metaphysics is a science.
- 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…
- I not only have a body; I am this body.
- But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.