We exist within the question of God.

- William Barrett

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

- William Barrett

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.

- William Barrett

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

- William Barrett

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some…

- William Barrett

Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an e…

- William Barrett

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

- William Barrett

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now…

- William Barrett

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

- William Barrett