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Bernard Williams

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

Tragedy is formed ’round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That’s part of their trouble.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

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.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

– Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

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.

– Bernard Williams

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