Quotes by : William Barrett

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

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

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

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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