William Barrett, The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In A Technological Civilization Quotes
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.
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.
The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?
The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.
