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Harry Frankfurt Quotes

1929–2023 United States

Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher.

United States
Essayists
Philosophers

Also known as: Harry G. Frankfurt, Harry Gordon Frankfurt

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

On Bullshit (2005)

The production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more excessive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic.

On Bullshit (2005)

Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

On Bullshit (2005)

[The bullshitter] does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

On Bullshit (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Frankfurt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.