Gabriel Marcel: Spirit

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

Gabriel Marcel: 20 quotes12 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.”

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

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

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.”

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

“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?”

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