Gabriel Marcel Quotes on Life
Gabriel Marcel was a French Catholic existentialist philosopher, dramatist, and music critic. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabriel Marcel on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“Being and having are the two fundamental categories of existence.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“Hope is for the soul what breath is for the body.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“I hope in thee for us.”
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“Life in a world centred on function is liable to dispair because in reality the world is empty, it rings hollow; and if it resist this temptation it is only to the extent that there comes into plat from within it and in its favour certain hidden forces which are beyond its power to conceive or to recognise.”
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“the world we live in permits - and may even seem to counsel - absolute dispair, yet it is only such a world that can give rise to an unconquerable hope.”
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