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Truth Quotes by Harry Frankfurt
- 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…
- Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
- The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all.…
- It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and…
- Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the…
- It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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