When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, a...
When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he consider his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, al...
From a moral point of view, economic equality does not really matter very much, and our moral and political concepts may be better focused on ensuring that people have enough.
Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of...
We may seek to distance ourselves from bullshit, but we are more likely to turn away from it with an impatient or irritated shrug than with the sense of violation or outrage that lies often inspire. T...
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
There are similarities between hot air and excrement, incidentally, which make hot air seem an especially suitable equivalent for bullshit. Just as hot air is speech that has been emptied of all infor...
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, bulls...
From the point of view of morality, it is not important that everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.
From the point of view of morality, it is not important everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough.
What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without conce...
The point is rather that, so far as Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which the endeavor to provide an acc...
There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may...
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.