Zitat des Tages von Bernard Williams:
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
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.
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.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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.
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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.
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
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.
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.