Awe Quote by William Barrett

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”

— William Barrett

“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

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

— William Barrett

“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

— William Barrett

“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.”

— William Barrett