Sublime

He construes her as engaged in an activity to which the distinction between what is true and what is false is crucial, and yet as taking no interest in whether what she says is true or false.

The topics to which this book is devoted have to do with the ordinary conduct of life. They pertain, in one way or another, to a question that is both ultimate and preliminary: how should a person live?

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

Logic and love preempt the guidance of our cognitive and volitional activity.

Another worthwhile source is the title essay in The Prevalence of Humbug by Max Black.

This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled—whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others—to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it

Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying.