Quotes by William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we se — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I define precisely what m — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence. — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. Tha — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what e — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness poin — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience. — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstract — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature. — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinki — William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization