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Top 30 William Barrett Quotes (2025 Update)

William Barrett Quote: “Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.”

1. “Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.”

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William Barrett Quote: “Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.”

2. “Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”

3. “To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”

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William Barrett Quote: “To discover one’s own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.”

4. “To discover one’s own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.”

5. “There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.”

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William Barrett Quote: “It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.”

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

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William Barrett Quote: “David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”

7. “David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all.”

8. “Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.”

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

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William Barrett Quote: “For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life, by which something great may be made out of even the paltriest and most banal of occurrences.”

10. “For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life, by which something great may be made out of even the paltriest and most banal of occurrences.”

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William Barrett Quote: “The word “intelligentsia” is of Russian origin; its coinage bears witness to the fact that intellectuals, whatever their original social or economic class, felt themselves a distinct cultural group in Russia because by their very nature they were alienated from the rest of the society.”

11. “The word “intelligentsia” is of Russian origin; its coinage bears witness to the fact that intellectuals, whatever their original social or economic class, felt themselves a distinct cultural group in Russia because by their very nature they were alienated from the rest of the society.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “We exist within the question of God.”

12. “We exist within the question of God.”

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William Barrett Quote: “The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.”

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

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William Barrett Quote: “What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.”

14. “What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.”

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William Barrett Quote: “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.”

15. “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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William Barrett Quote: “For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the objects of his reasoning, the Ideas, were more real than his own individual person or the particular objects that made up his world. The great step forward into rationalism required its own mythology – such perhaps is always the ambiguity of human evolution.”

16. “For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the objects of his reasoning, the Ideas, were more real than his own individual person or the particular objects that made up his world. The great step forward into rationalism required its own mythology – such perhaps is always the ambiguity of human evolution.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “The computer only gives back ourselves. It is a faithful mirror that reflects the human traits that are brought to it.”

17. “The computer only gives back ourselves. It is a faithful mirror that reflects the human traits that are brought to it.”

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William Barrett Quote: “If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine.”

18. “If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.”

19. “Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.”

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William Barrett Quote: “We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

20. “We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

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William Barrett Quote: “When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward his God, and therefore must be able to encompass all human modes of being.”

21. “When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward his God, and therefore must be able to encompass all human modes of being.”

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William Barrett Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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William Barrett Quote: “Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed to a blind man.”

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

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William Barrett Quote: “Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.”

24. “Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.”

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William Barrett Quote: “If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as modern art does by exalting some of the humble and dirty little corners of existence.”

25. “If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as modern art does by exalting some of the humble and dirty little corners of existence.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate realization of our mortality, time would be simply a movement of the clock that we watch passively, calculating its advance – a movement devoid of human meaning.”

26. “We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate realization of our mortality, time would be simply a movement of the clock that we watch passively, calculating its advance – a movement devoid of human meaning.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “The Greek word for “I know,” oida, is the perfect of the verb “to see” and means “I have seen.”

27. “The Greek word for “I know,” oida, is the perfect of the verb “to see” and means “I have seen.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “Poetry is no longer an art merely of making verses, but a magical means of arriving at some truer and more real sphere of Being.”

28. “Poetry is no longer an art merely of making verses, but a magical means of arriving at some truer and more real sphere of Being.”

— William Barrett

William Barrett Quote: “An epoch, as we have seen, reveals itself in its religion, its social forms, but perhaps most profoundly or, at any rate, lucidly in its art.”

29. “An epoch, as we have seen, reveals itself in its religion, its social forms, but perhaps most profoundly or, at any rate, lucidly in its art.”

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William Barrett Quote: “Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

30. “Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

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William Barrett Quote: “We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.”

31. “We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.”

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