Truth Requires Quotes by Harry Frankfurt

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• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is…
• The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of…
• One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
• 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…
• As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
• I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de…
• I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told…
• It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to…
• Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in…
• It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
• Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

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