If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.


Truth and Truthfulness (2002)

Bernard Williams Quotes

If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This ...

If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This ...

If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This ...

If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This ...