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

— William Barrett Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

A recognition of limits, of boundaries, may be the only thing that prevents power from dizzy collapse.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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