One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is somuch bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes hisshare.

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.

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

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

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

It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.

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

bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality, and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are.