Bo Burnham Quotes

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

People get angry at others who express a different opinion, while, in fact, they should be angry at themselves. But we must be angry at ourselves the most when we say something today, only to say something else tomorrow.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's in you, and you aren't ashamed of it...but people are made to feel ashamed. You start thinking, like, "Is this human nature? That I like certain things, but I don't like certain aspects of certain things? Should I just shun it altogether?"

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.