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Alexander Nehamas

"This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them."

-- Alexander Nehamas

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“The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.62, A&C Black
“My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.”

Source : "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.
“Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.”
“What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People donâ€™t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I donâ€™t feel comfortable. Iâ€™m sorry, we as a group weâ€™re feelingâ€¦.' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what Iâ€™m thinking.”
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
“If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it.”
“All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.”

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