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Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
— Harry G. 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 the will.
— Harry Frankfurt
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
It was a chilly sensation, growing up.
— Ian McEwan
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
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
— Maya Angelou
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
— Harry Frankfurt
However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
Pritkin was saying something, something I should probably be paying attention to since he was looking a little ... stressed.
— Karen Chance
Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
— Herbie Hancock
People have done this before, but not us.
— Ada Limon