Top 5 Harry Frankfurt Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
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