Gabriel Marcel: Spirit

Gabriel Marcel was French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. Explore interesting quotes on spirit.
Gabriel Marcel: 20   quotes 11   likes

“It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.”

Gabriel Marcel

Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 144

Life , Change , Parting , Speed

“The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction”

Gabriel Marcel

Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 1

“The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.”

Gabriel Marcel

Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 143

Time

“No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?”

Gabriel Marcel

Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 116

World , Way , Home , Idea