Gabriel Marcel

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


— Gabriel Marcel


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


— Gabriel Marcel


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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


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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.


— Gabriel Marcel


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


— Gabriel Marcel


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Metaphysics is a science.


— Gabriel Marcel


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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.


— Gabriel Marcel


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


— Gabriel Marcel


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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


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


— Gabriel Marcel


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Publication of the Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy ed. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. The Mystery of Being Vol.

Though often regarded as the first French existentialist he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre preferring the term Philosophy of Existence to define his own thought. He focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. In addition to being a playwright and philosopher Marcel was also a music critic.