People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
From Bernard Williams
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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.
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.
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
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.
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