Quotes by : William Barrett

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 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....

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....

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

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