Adopted Quote 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…

— Harry Frankfurt

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

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

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

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

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

— Harry Frankfurt

“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

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

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

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

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

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

— Harry Frankfurt