32 Quotes by 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.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

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

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

Metaphysics is a science.

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

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.