Able Quote by 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 human creatures.”

William Barrett

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

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

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