Life Quote by William Barrett

“The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.”

William Barrett

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“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

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We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as…

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Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It…

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“When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward his God, and therefore…

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Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil –…

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“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…

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“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine,…

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

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“Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as -the- tradition in art, or even any longer as distinctly and uniquely -ours-. That canon is in fact only one tradition among many, and indeed in its strict adherence to representational form is rather the exception…

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

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

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

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