William Barrett (philosopher) Quotes

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe...

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he find...

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that san...

Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I def...

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all...

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the ...

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Sinc...

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What po...

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

What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, f...

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical n...

Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, a...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.