Bernard Williams Quotes
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A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
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The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
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Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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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.
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
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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.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.