Recognizing Truth Through Selflessness – Harry Gordon Frankfurt

„Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.“

Harry Gordon FrankfurtHarry Gordon Frankfurt emphasizes that selflessness is necessary to recognize the true nature of things.
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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher and professor at Princeton University.

A quote about the importance of selflessness to recognize the true nature of things.


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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher who taught at Princeton University. His research focused on ethics, philosophy of mind, action theory, and 17th-century philosophy. He is regarded as an important thinker in these fields.

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"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know." Georges I. Gurdjieff
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