Quotes by Gabriel Marcel

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
• 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.
• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
• 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.
• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
• On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
• Metaphysics is a science.
• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.