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Top 25 Gabriel Marcel Quotes (2025 Update)

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “I not only have a body; I am this body.”

1. “I not only have a body; I am this body.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”

2. “You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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...”

4. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.”

6. “An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”

7. “The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.”

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

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “Metaphysics is a science.”

9. “Metaphysics is a science.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.”

10. “Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.”

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

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”

13. “Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”

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

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an outward fact; rather it must be something that I decide, moreover, without appeal. It is beyond the power of anyone to reject the decision by which I assert my freedom and this assertion is ultimately bound up with the consciousness that I have of myself.”

15. “My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an outward fact; rather it must be something that I decide, moreover, without appeal. It is beyond the power of anyone to reject the decision by which I assert my freedom and this assertion is ultimately bound up with the consciousness that I have of myself.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.”

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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.”

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

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.”

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

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Gabriel Marcel Quote: “I cannot help recording that this illumination of my thought is for me only the extension of the Other, the only Light. I have never known such happiness. I have been playing Brahms for a long time, piano sonatas that were new to me. They will always remind me of this unforgettable time. How can I keep this feeling of being entered, of being absolutely safe – and also of being enfolded?”

20. “I cannot help recording that this illumination of my thought is for me only the extension of the Other, the only Light. I have never known such happiness. I have been playing Brahms for a long time, piano sonatas that were new to me. They will always remind me of this unforgettable time. How can I keep this feeling of being entered, of being absolutely safe – and also of being enfolded?”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?”

21. “The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “I know by my own experience how, from a stranger met by chance, there may come an irresistible appeal which overturns the habitual perspectives just as a gust of wind might tumble down the panels of a stage set – what had seemed near becomes infinitely remote and what had seemed distant seems to be close.”

23. “I know by my own experience how, from a stranger met by chance, there may come an irresistible appeal which overturns the habitual perspectives just as a gust of wind might tumble down the panels of a stage set – what had seemed near becomes infinitely remote and what had seemed distant seems to be close.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “We must, therefore, break away once and for all from the metaphors which depict consciousness as a luminous circle round which there is nothing, to its own eyes, but darkness. On the contrary, the shadow is at the centre.”

24. “We must, therefore, break away once and for all from the metaphors which depict consciousness as a luminous circle round which there is nothing, to its own eyes, but darkness. On the contrary, the shadow is at the centre.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.”

25. “March 7th It is a serious error, if I am not mistaken, to treat time as a mode of apprehension. For one is then forced to consider it also as the order according to which the subject apprehends himself, and he can only do this by breaking away from himself, as it were, and mentally severing the fundamental engagement which makes him what he is.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “The detachment of the saint springs, as one might say, from the very core of reality; it completely excludes curiosity about the universe. This detachment is the highest form of participation. The detachment of the spectator is just the opposite, it is desertion, not only in thought but in act.”

26. “The detachment of the saint springs, as one might say, from the very core of reality; it completely excludes curiosity about the universe. This detachment is the highest form of participation. The detachment of the spectator is just the opposite, it is desertion, not only in thought but in act.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.”

27. “Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.”

— Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel Quote: “There is no privileged state which allows us to transcend time; and this was where Proust made his great mistake. A state such as he describes has only the value of a foretaste. This notion of a foretaste is, I feel, likely to play a more and more central part in my thinking.”

28. “There is no privileged state which allows us to transcend time; and this was where Proust made his great mistake. A state such as he describes has only the value of a foretaste. This notion of a foretaste is, I feel, likely to play a more and more central part in my thinking.”

— Gabriel Marcel

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