William Barrett - Man Quotes

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Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed to a blind man.

William Barrett
Where feudalism is concrete and organic, with man dominated by the image of the land, capitalism is abstract and calculating in spirit, and severs man from the earth.

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.

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 decline of religion in modern times means simply that religion is no longer the uncontested center and ruler of man's life, and that the Church is no longer the final and unquestioned home and asylum of his being.

William Barrett
One does wish that Sartre would pause for a while to regroup his forces. The man really does write too much.

William Barrett
The instincts of man are so earth-bound that they shrewdly sense it whenever the approach of logic threatens them.

William Barrett
Where Plato and Aristotle had asked the question, What is man?, St. Augustine (in the Confessions) asks, Who am I? — and this shift is decisive.

William Barrett