Quotes by : William Barrett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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