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…

- Harry Frankfurt

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

- 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 all. He does not reject the authority of …

- Harry Frankfurt

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

- 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 the facts as he under…

- Harry Frankfurt

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.

- Harry Frankfurt

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

- 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 there.

- 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, and he is to that exte…

- Harry Frankfurt