Q0219

Gabriel Marcel

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English

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being… a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me.
Thinker Gabriel Marcel
School Christian Existentialism
Source Being and Having et al.
Theme Hope
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Being and Having et al., within the tradition of Christian Existentialism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of hope, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Gabriel Marcel's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Gabriel Marcel. (n.d.). Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being… a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0219

MLA: Gabriel Marcel. “Hope consists in asserting that there is at….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0219.

Chicago: Gabriel Marcel. “Hope consists in asserting that there is at….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0219.

Same theme

More on hope

  1. There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
  2. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
  3. Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination.
  4. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
  5. Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

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