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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it--you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.
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truth
bullshit
sports
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Harry Crews |
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Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial--notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
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philosophy
truth
bullshit
sincerity
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Harry G. Frankfurt |
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On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.
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bullshit-and-politics
truthiness
power-corrupts
bullshit
delusion
propaganda
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Gore Vidal |
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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 ?
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truth
bullshit
introduction
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Harry G. Frankfurt |
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Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of beliefs.
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philosophy
bullshit
civilization
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Harry G. Frankfurt |