The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.

— William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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