Gabriel Marcel Quotes

"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Science)

"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Life, Music, Logic, Mathematics)

"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Life, Contemplation, Man)

"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
(Related: Love, Experience, Blood, Joy, Suffering)

"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
(Related: Battle, Philosophy, Spirit)

"On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Man)

"Metaphysics is a science."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Science, Metaphysics)

"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Metaphysics, Right)

"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Man)

"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
- Gabriel Marcel
(Related: Music, Mathematics)