Quotes by Gilbert Ryle - Page 1

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Dogma
Ghost
Machines
Copy Quote
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Chronicles
Records
Copy Quote
Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Myth
Stills
Theoretical
Copy Quote
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Discipline
Philosophy
Replacements
Copy Quote
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Deny
Facts
Myth
Copy Quote
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Men
Aggravation
Needs
Copy Quote
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Hunted
Hunters
Self
Copy Quote
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
May
Self
Trying
Copy Quote
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Destiny
Solitude
Soul
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Plato
Thinking
Views
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Dream
May
Pavement
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Science
Facts
Fairy Stories
Copy Quote
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Men
Animal
Mammals
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Science
Causes
Mind
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Dark
Eye
Mind
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Firsts
Light
Play
Copy Quote
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 / Philosopher
Ignorance
Silly
Stupidity
Copy Quote
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Differences
Lying
People
Copy Quote
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Dream
Intelligence
Thinking
Thoughtful
Copy Quote
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Home
Hands
Two
Copy Quote
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.
Gilbert Ryle / Philosopher
Believe
Doe
Mind
Copy Quote

Related Philosopher Authors

Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Wednesday, May 05, 1813
Sunday, Nov 11, 1855
Socrates
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Plato
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
John Locke
Philosopher
Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Epictetus
Philosopher
Zicheng Hong
Philosopher
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Zhang Zai
Philosopher
Zeno Of Elea
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Zengzi
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Zechariah Chafee
Philosopher
Monday, Dec 07, 1885
Friday, Feb 08, 1957
Yasuhiko Kimura
Philosopher
Yamaga Soko
Philosopher
Wednesday, Sep 21, 1622
Tuesday, Oct 23, 1685

View All Philosopher Quotes

Top Authors

Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Monday, May 03, 1469
Tuesday, Jun 21, 1527
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Isaac Newton
Physicist
Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
Monday, Mar 31, 1727
Dalai Lama
Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
Sunday, Jan 29, 1956
Steven Wright
Comedian
Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
Theodore Roosevelt
26Th U.s. President
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
Monday, Jan 06, 1919
Stephen Covey
Author
Monday, Oct 24, 1932
Monday, Jul 16, 2012
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
George Carlin
Comedian
Wednesday, May 12, 1937
Sunday, Jun 22, 2008
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Mae West
Actress
Thursday, Aug 17, 1893
Saturday, Nov 22, 1980

View All Authors

Gilbert Ryle Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Philosopher Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Philosopher Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page