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Bernard Williams
English
Philosopher
Born:
Sep 21
,
1929
Died:
Jun 10
,
2003
Does
History
Like
People
Science
Than
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams
Victory
Looking
Contentment
Pass
May
Roses
Violets
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bernard Williams
World
Face
Licking
Puppy
Like
Psychiatrist
Your
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Bernard Williams
Genius
Brainy
Fire
Flame
Talent
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
Bernard Williams
Hope
Day
Spring
He
Lord
Same
Created
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Bernard Williams
Life
Secret
Valleys
Supposed
Becoming
Grand
Canyon
Series
Keep
Peaks
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bernard Williams
Time
Somebody
Take Advantage
Every
Every Time
Weakness
Take
Advantage
Little
Grow
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bernard Williams
Word
Laziness
Seem
Classy
Indolence
Like
Makes
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
Bernard Williams
Women
Men
Favorite
Room
Chair
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.
Bernard Williams
War
Myself
Man
People
Rich
He
Put
Attracted
Opera
Himself
Lot
Very
Process
Converted
Rich Man
England
Included
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
Bernard Williams
Quality
Humanity
Merely
Name
Also
Species
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
Truth
Truth Is
Rightly
More
Than
Anything
Things
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Bernard Williams
Critic
Lot
Friend
Things
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Bernard Williams
Extravagance
Spirit
Something
Your
Necessity
Thinks
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
School
Before
Philosophical
Philosophy
Say
Out
Kind
Some
About
Argue
Knew
Issues
Friends
Interested
Turned
Used
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
Virtually
Unlike
Philosophy
Component
Classics
Only
Could
Had
Scholarship
Study
Became
Cambridge
Subject
Get
Oxford
Which
Ever
People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.
Bernard Williams
Death
Saying
People
Criticism
Philosophy
Would
Would-Be
Student
Since
Days
Were
Been
Replaced
Literary
Literary Criticism
Predicting
Century
Then
Sociology
Last
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