Quotes by Gabriel Marcel - Page 1

Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Science
Metaphysics
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I not only have a body; I am this body.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Music
Aroma
Math
Perfume
Scent
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An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
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Men
Grassroots
Levels
Touch
Grasp
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
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Running
Wise
Men
Contemplation
Life Wise Man
Wise Man
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Science
Concerned
Metaphysics
Probity
Scientific
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Men
Contemporary
Thinker
Transcending
Thinkers
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Wisdom
Home
Men
Contemplation
Totally
Achievements
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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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Love
Beautiful
Knows
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Adequate
Method
Objects
Exact
Extent
Measures
Object
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Logic
Mathematics
Dreamed
However
Measurable
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Conquest
Persons
Precarious
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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.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Breathing
Soul
Thinking
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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 Marcel / Philosopher
Abstraction
Battle
Obstinate
Philosophy
Taken
Dynamic
Element
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This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
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Amputation
Levels
Poverty
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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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Falling In Love
Love Is
Mars
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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
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Data
Heart
Principles
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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.
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Art
Letting Go
Real
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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.
Gabriel Marcel / Philosopher
Accepted
Blood
Depth
Joy
Thinking
Authentic
Bond
Close
Precious
Sign
Striking
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