Gabriel Marcel famous quotes

03-26-2025

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Mathematics #Perfume
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

#Philosophy #Taken #Battle
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Men #Thinker #Contemporary
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 authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Thinking #Blood #Joy
Metaphysics is a science.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Metaphysics
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Metaphysics #Probity #Concerned
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Love #Beautiful
An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Individual
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Adequate #Method
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Logic #Mathematics
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Men #Levels #Grassroots
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 in love is a mystery.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Falling In Love #Love Is #Mars
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 is in connivance with me
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Heart #Data #Principles
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 withers...
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Thinking #Breathing #Soul
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Wise #Running #Men
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Home #Men #Achievement
I not only have a body; I am this body.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Body

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