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Gabriel Marcel [1889-1973] French

Gabriel Honoré Marcel was 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.

Science, Wisdom

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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.		101
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.		102
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.		103
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.		104
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.		105
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.		106
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.	Wisdom	107
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.		108
Metaphysics is a science.		109
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.	Science	110
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.		111

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