Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. — William Barrett Features Copy Share Image
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature — William Barrett Human nature Copy Share Image
“The Greek word for “I know,” oida, is the perfect of the verb “to see” and means “I have seen.” — William Barrett Greek Word Copy Share Image
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. — William Barrett Life Copy Share Image
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett Awe 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… — William Barrett Able Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.” — William Barrett Atheism 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… — William Barrett Anxiety Copy Share Image
“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.” — William Barrett Actualization Copy Share Image
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Change Copy Share Image
“For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters,… — William Barrett Adventure 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,… — William Barrett Anger 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 Generality 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… — William Barrett Doubt 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… — William Barrett Computers Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Acceptance 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… — William Barrett Doubt 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… — William Barrett Anxiety Copy Share Image
“For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the objects of his… — William Barrett History 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 Abstraction 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 Able 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 Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“To the other person, who looks at me from the outside, I seem an object, a thing; my subjectivity with its inner… — William Barrett Freedom Copy Share Image
“Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I… — William Barrett Agnosticism Copy Share Image
“Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to… — William Barrett Alienation Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Descartes Copy Share Image
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett Achieve 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… — William Barrett California Copy Share Image
“If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as… — William Barrett Art Copy Share Image
“If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death.… — William Barrett Death Copy Share Image
“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett Academia Copy Share Image
“Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed to a blind… — William Barrett Blind man Copy Share Image
“Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within… — William Barrett Freedom Copy Share Image
“The computer only gives back ourselves. It is a faithful mirror that reflects the human traits that are brought to it.” — William Barrett Computer science Copy Share Image
“The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To… — William Barrett Ends Copy Share Image
“Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our… — William Barrett Faith Copy Share Image
“The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself,… — William Barrett Consciousness Copy Share Image
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… — William Barrett America Copy Share Image
