We do not ask ourselves what the ultimate ideas behind our civilizatio — William Barrett (philosopher)

"The will to power is weakness as well as strength, and the more it is cut off and isolated from the rest of the human personality, the more desperate, in its weakness, it can become."

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

"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 a standardized mass society."

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

"Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed to a blind man."

"The decline of religion in modern times means simply that religion is no longer the uncontested center and ruler of mans life, and that the Church is no longer the final and unquestioned home and asylum of his being."