Böyükağa Quliyev

“If 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.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“The word “intelligentsia” is of Russian origin; its coinage bears witness to the fact that intellectuals, whatever their original social or economic class, felt themselves a distinct cultural group in Russia because by their very nature they were alienated from the rest of the society.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy