Quotes by Bernard Williams

People who say, Let the chips fall where they may, usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. Its been impurified by science and social science and history.

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.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

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.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.