Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
About Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Honore Marcelwas a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel’s work focused on the modern individual’s struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society.
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Metaphysics is a science.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
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.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)