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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...

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

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...

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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and histo...

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

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

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Bernard Williams

Philosopher

Born: 1929-09-21

Died: 2003-06-10

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1929 – 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.More