Gabriel Marcel quotes
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“Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”
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“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 MarcelSource : Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”
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“Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.”
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“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.”
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“It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.”
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“You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”
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“An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.”
-- Gabriel Marcel -
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“But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.”
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“But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.”
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“On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.”
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“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.”
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“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 MarcelSource : Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”
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“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...”
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“The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”
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“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”
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