Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Honoré 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. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term 'Philosophy of Existence' to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth7 December 1889
CountryFrance
Gabriel Marcel quotes about
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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.
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...