Top 27 Gilbert Ryle Quotes
#1. In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.
Brad Stone
#3. A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Gilbert Ryle
#4. In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
Gilbert Ryle
#5. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#6. You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.
Pippa DaCosta
#7. Moreover both this constant awareness (generally called 'consciousness'), and this non-sensuous inner perception (generally called 'introspection') have been supposed to be exempt from error.
Gilbert Ryle
#8. Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
Gilbert Ryle
#9. Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
#10. To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.
Gilbert Ryle
#11. I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
Clive Owen
#12. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
Gilbert Ryle
#13. We both kissed a lot. We both laughed a lot. We both loved a lot. We both breathed a lot. A lot.
Colleen Hoover
#14. I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.
Pattie Mallette
#15. Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Gilbert Ryle
#16. Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
Gilbert Ryle
#17. Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
Gilbert Ryle
#18. Aim at nothing, and you get nowhere. Aim at something, and even in long odds you often get closer than you would otherwise.
Erik Wecks
#19. Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
Gilbert Ryle
#20. My today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
Gilbert Ryle
#21. I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield
#22. The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
Gilbert Ryle
#23. enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting
Edgar Allan Poe
#24. Everything was always something, but something - and here was the rub - could never be everything.
Joshua Ferris
#25. I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.
Tony Benn
#26. When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world.
Gilbert Ryle
#27. The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.
Graeme Simsion
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