Gabriel Marcel Quotes

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

Speak little, do much.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)