There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. - Bernard Williams 1 Share Now -
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history. - Bernard Williams 3 Share Now -
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. - Bernard Williams 4 Share Now -
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. - Bernard Williams 5 Share Now -
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams 7 Share Now -
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. - Bernard Williams 8 Share Now -
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Bernard Williams 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -