Gabriel Marcel Quotes

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

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 ...

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Metaphysics is a science.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

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.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.