Quotes by : William Barrett

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

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

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

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

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....

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

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

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

The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science he attempts to frame a comprehensive....