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 he is to that exte….

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. He does not reject the authority of ….

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

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend….

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he under….

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction..

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out o….

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted..

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 h….

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will..

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about..

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness..

Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stim….

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there..

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

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 way they ….