Harry Frankfurt Quotes

• 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 the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Truth, Lying, Philosophy

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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• 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 look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Looks, How You Feel, Way

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• La mentira es más enemiga de la verdad que la mentira.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Lying, Bullshit, Enemy

  Harry G. Frankfurt (2009). “On Bullshit”, Princeton University Press

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• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Honesty, Opportunity, Talking

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

  Harry Frankfurt

  Lying, Thinking, Bullshit

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• 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 understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Liars, Lying, Opposites

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• 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 to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Taken, People, Bullshit

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• 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 he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Honesty, Liars, Believe

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• 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

  Freedom, Order, Free Will

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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

  Harry Frankfurt

  Bullshit, Culture, Features

  "On Bullshit". Book by Harry Frankfurt, 2005.

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• Hay relaciones significativas, por supuesto, entre querer cosas y preocuparse por ellas... La noción de preocuparse se construye en gran parte a partir de la noción de deseo. Preocuparse por algo puede no ser, a fin de cuentas, más que un cierto modo complejo de desearlo. Sin embargo, el mero hecho de atribuir deseo a una persona no implica en sí mismo que esa persona se preocupe por el objeto que desea.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Caring, Desire, Care

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

  Harry Frankfurt

  Talking, Knowing, Bullshit

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• 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 extent respectful of it.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Lying, Thinking, Impossible

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

  Harry Frankfurt

  Philosopher, Wilderness, Obliged

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• 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

  Madre, Padre, Años

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• 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

  Men, Literary Theory, Yale

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