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Gabriel Marcel has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a…
• A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is…
• 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…
• 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.

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