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Gabriel Marcel [1889-1973] French
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Philosopher


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