William Barrett (philosopher)

"Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought."

"Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward…"

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

"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 asy…"

"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 …"

"That existence has meaning, finally, only as the liberty to say No, and by saying No to create a world."

"Of all the non-European philosophers, William James probably best deserves to be an Existentialist."

"Heidegger's philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent."