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

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

I'm a private person.

You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.