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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

The essential freedom, the ultimate and final freedom that cannot be taken from a man, is to say No. This is the basic premise in Sartre's view of human freedom: freedom is in its very essence negative, though the negativity is also creative.

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The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

William Barrett

We do not ask ourselves what the ultimate ideas behind our civilization are that have brought us into this danger; we do not search for the human face behind the bewildering array of instruments that man has forged; in a word, we do not dare to be philosophical.

William Barrett

The will to power is weakness as well as strength, and the more it is cut off and isolated from the rest of the human personality, the more desperate, in its weakness, it can become.

William Barrett