Harry Frankfurt quotes

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)
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. View quote
Harry Frankfurt

Harry Frankfurt

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Photo: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 29, 1929
Died: July 16, 2023
Quotes count: 7