Harry Frankfurt Quotes

#1. Spread love and continue life. Keep creating life, that's my message!

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#2. Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#3. A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Joyce Brothers

#4. Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

L.M. Fields

#5. To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know - and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of - a great many truths.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#6. The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#7. Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

Harry G. Frankfurt

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

Harry Frankfurt

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

Harry G. Frankfurt

#10. Is truth something that in fact we do - and should - especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of bullshit?

Harry G. Frankfurt

#11. After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#12. 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

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

Harry G. Frankfurt

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Harry G. Frankfurt

#18. According to the magazine, if you turned the runes on their heads they revealed a spell to make your enemy's ears into kumquats.

J.K. Rowling

#19. However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.

Harry G. Frankfurt