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
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
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.