Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth,… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
