Bernard Williams Quotes
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The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
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The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
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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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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.
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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.
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A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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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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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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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.