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 Frankfurt (1929 CE-), Harry Gordon Frankfurt is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002.[2] Frankfurt has also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University.