Gabriel Marcel Quotes

It Is Right That We Be Concerned With The Scientific Probity Of Metaphysics.

Metaphysics Is A Science.

But A Science Is Exact To The Extent That Its Method Measures Up To And Is Adequate To Its Object.

This Detachment (poverty, Chastity, Etc.) Must Not Be Mere Amputation; Everything Which Is Shaken Off Must Be Simultaneously Found Again At A Higher Level.

On A Grassroots Level We Say That Man Can Touch More Than He Can Grasp.

But However Measurable, There Is Much More Life In Music Than Mathematics Or Logic Ever Dreamed Of.

Contemporary Thinkers Would Say That Man Is Continuously Transcending Himself.

Contemplation And Wisdom Are Highest Achievements And Man Is Not Totally At Home With Them.

The Dynamic Element In My Philosophy, Taken As A Whole, Can Be Seen As An Obstinate And Untiring Battle Against The Spirit Of Abstraction.

An Individual Is Not Distinct From His Place. He Is His Place.

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.

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