"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."

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Source : Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

Gabriel Marcel

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“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”
“I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.”
“I remember things the way they should have been.”
“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.
“There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.”
“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”
“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.”

Source : "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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