Quotes by Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel

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

Conquest

Persons

Precarious

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.

Falling In Love

Love Is

Mars

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

Individual

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

Art

Letting Go

Real

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Adequate

Method

Objects

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

Logic

Mathematics

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

Contemplation

Home

Men

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Contemporary

Men

Thinker

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

Data

Heart

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.

Breathing

Soul

Thinking

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Contemplation

Contemporary

Data

Falling In Love

Grassroots

Heart

Home

Individual

Joy

Knows

Letting Go

Levels

Logic

Love

Love Is

Mars

Math

Mathematics

Men

Metaphysics

Method

Music

Objects

Persons

Philosophy

Poverty

Precarious

Principles

Probity

Real

Running

Scent

Soul

Taken

Thinker

Thinking

Wise

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Quotes by Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel

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

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.

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

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

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

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

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

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

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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