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

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.

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

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.

Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall receive

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.