Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.
We exist within the question of God. - William Barrett
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
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
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
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.
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
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some…
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. - William Barrett
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
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
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…
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. - William Barrett
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now… - William Barrett
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now…
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. - William Barrett
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
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