“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
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature — William Barrett Human nature 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Cain and abel 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
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Accepted 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 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
“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
“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
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett Civilization Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Abstract 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
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Doubt Copy Share Image
