“If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death.… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
