The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false.… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he… — 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
“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
