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.

- Gabriel Marcel

I not only have a body; I am this body.

- Gabriel Marcel

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

- Gabriel Marcel

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

- Gabriel Marcel

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle …

- Gabriel Marcel

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

- Gabriel Marcel

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…

- Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

- Gabriel Marcel

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 i…

- Gabriel Marcel