William Barrett Quotes
- From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep…
- The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
- We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human…
- Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
- To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
- We exist within the question of God.
- The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
- Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way…
- Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is…
- Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an…
- It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.