Gabriel Marcel Quotes on Knowledge
Gabriel Marcel was a French Catholic existentialist philosopher, dramatist, and music critic. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabriel Marcel on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“A philosopher must accept the mystery of being.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“The intellect's deepest task is to safeguard the mystery.”
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“Being is - or should be - necessary.”
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“When the pessimist Besme says in La Ville that nothing is, he means precisely this, that there is no experience that withstands the analytical test.”
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“No doubt I shall be told: "In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion." But it is of the essence of hope to exlclude the consideration of cases; moreover, it can be shown that there exists an ascedning dialectic of hope, whereby hope rises to a plane which transcends the level of all possible empirical disproof - the plane of salvation as opposed to that of success in whatever form”
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“speaking metaphysically, the only genuine hope is hope in what does not depend on ourselves, hope springing from humility and not from pride.”
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