Sublime

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.

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

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.

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

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?

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.

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.