William Barrett Quotes
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
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 to supplant Europe.
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.
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.
In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?
The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.