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

— 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.

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

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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.

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

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

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