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

That is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she cannot be deliberately promulgating a proposition that she presumes to be false

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

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It does so, I believe, because he perceives what Pascal says as being—roughly speaking, for now—unconnected to a concern with the truth

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Wittgenstein devoted his philosophical energies largely to identifying and combating what he regarded as insidiously disruptive forms of “nonsense.”

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The realms of advertising and of public relations, and the nowadays closely related realm of politics, are replete with instances of bullshit so unmitigated that they can serve among the most indisputable and classic paradigms of the concept