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

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

After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

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

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.

Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.