Quotes by Harry Frankfurt

About Harry Frankfurt:

Harry Gordon Frankfurt is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002, and previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University.ref needed
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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

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

Harry Frankfurt

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.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameHarry Frankfurt
  • DescriptionPhilosopher
  • BornMay 29, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhilosopher
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship