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William Barrett, PhD, (1913–1992) was a philosophy professor, author, editor, and literary critic. He was deeply influenced by the philosophies of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger and focused on making existentialism accessible to nonexperts.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBut the worst and final form of alienation, toward which indeed the others tend, is man’s alienation from his own self.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine . . .

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNot only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I define precisely what my attitude is toward something it cannot conceivably grasp?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

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