Clergyman's

Power as the pursuit of more power inevitably founders in the void that lies beyond itself.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Power as the pursuit of more power inevitably founders in the void that lies beyond itself.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Heidegger's philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

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 (philosopher)

Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conversion. This is surely an existential beginning.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conversion. This is surely an existential beginning.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Now at the end, we come back to the beginning: to the situation of the world here and now, from which all understanding must start and to which it must return. In all existential thinking it is we ourselves, the questioners, who are ultimately in question.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Now at the end, we come back to the beginning: to the situation of the world here and now, from which all understanding must start and to which it must return. In all existential thinking it is we ourselves, the questioners, who are ultimately in question.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

Now at the end, we come back to the beginning: to the situation of the world here and now, from which all understanding must start and to which it must return. In all existential thinking it is we ourselves, the questioners, who are ultimately in question.
- William Barrett (philosopher)

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 (philosopher)