As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes explore oblige philosopher
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. Harry Frankfurt extentimpossiblelie Change image and share on social
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 adoptbaltimorebookkeeper Change image and share on social
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. Harry Frankfurt centerderridaliterary Change image and share on social
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. Robert Ballard annualbudgetcompare Change image and share on social
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran answerbraineventually share on social
I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' Tony Abbott answercountrygreat share on social
