William Barrett Quotes
William Barrett Quotes
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
4582 What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.
1722 In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
3628 The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.
4567 Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.
1677 The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
2171 Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.
1106 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.
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