- Nov 07, 2020
Bernard Williams Quotes
Most Famous Bernard Williams Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best bernard-williams quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Philosophy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Real
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Part
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
- |
- Nov 07, 2020