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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Extravagance Necessity Something Spirit Thinks Your

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

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Chip Chips Fall Figure Hit May People Say Where Who Will

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Before Books Had Instant Long Sports Televised

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Critic Friend Lot Things

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

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Altogether Been History Less Now Philosophy Pure Science Social

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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

Topics: About Argue Before Friends Interested Issues Kind Knew Out Philosophical Philosophy Say School Some Turned Used

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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

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

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Majority Part Philosophers Totally Trouble

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'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.

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Topics: Also Humanity Merely Name Quality Species

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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

Topics: Anything More Rightly Than Things Truth Truth Is

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 21st, 1929

Died: June 10th, 2003

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