Harry G. Frankfurt

“We may seek to distance ourselves from bullshit, but we are more likely to turn away from it with an impatient or…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“That is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt