Gabriel Marcel Quotations

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

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

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

Metaphysics is a science.

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

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.

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

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

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