Top 34 Gabriel Marcel Quotes
#1. Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself ... A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 - Gabriel Marcel
Stephen Batchelor
#2. This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
Gabriel Marcel
#3. Heat rose to her cheeks. The man made love to her one time, and already she couldn't wait to touch him again. He should be labeled a controlled substance to keep potential addicts like her safe from his influence.
Christine Warren
#4. An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.
Gabriel Marcel
#5. 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
Gabriel Marcel
#6. Everyone around them seem oblivious to their own brand of intimacy.
Michael Banebrook
#7. Road - tomorrow?" Myron asked. "Am I going back to the abbey?"
"Better - you're going to be a hero.
Michael J. Sullivan
#9. But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel
#10. Some women," Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, "get
under a man's skin until digging them out makes you bleed.
Nalini Singh
#11. I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage' ...
Doug Stanhope
#12. Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
Gabriel Marcel
#13. 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
#14. The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
#15. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
Irwin Winkler
#16. 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
#17. It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.
Gabriel Marcel
#18. If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.
Rajneesh
#19. The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and such characteristics; but if he had such characteristics, He could not allow etc...His judgment of incompability, in fact, is based on a judgment of implications.
Gabriel Marcel
#20. Loving someone that everyone tells you not to love.
Unknown
#21. On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
Gabriel Marcel
#22. The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
Anne Graham Lotz
#23. Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
Gabriel Marcel
#24. Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel
#26. 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.
Gabriel Marcel
#27. 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
#28. But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel
#29. You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
Gabriel Marcel
#30. I can't believe I only knew you for a year and a half - how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.
Heather Demetrios
#31. It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel
#32. [As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.
Stephen Malkmus
#33. Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Gabriel Marcel
#34. 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.
Gabriel Marcel
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