“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his… — William Barrett Copy Share
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as… — William Barrett Copy Share
Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It… — William Barrett Copy Share
“When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward his God, and therefore… — William Barrett Copy Share
Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil –… — William Barrett Copy Share
“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end… — William Barrett Copy Share
“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine,… — William Barrett Copy Share
“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as… — William Barrett Copy Share
“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.” — William Barrett Copy Share
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Copy Share
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. — William Barrett Copy Share
“The Greek word for “I know,” oida, is the perfect of the verb “to see” and means “I have seen.” — William Barrett Copy Share
“To the other person, who looks at me from the outside, I seem an object, a thing; my subjectivity with its inner freedom escapes… — William Barrett Copy Share
