The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

- Gabriel Marcel

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

- Gabriel Marcel

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

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

- Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

- Gabriel Marcel

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

- Gabriel Marcel

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

- Gabriel Marcel

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

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

- Gabriel Marcel

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

- Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics is a science.

- Gabriel Marcel