Bernard Williams Quotes

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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21 September, 1929
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10 June, 2003
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