Date: 1981
"If one must use metaphorical language, then let the metaphor be this: the mind and the world jointly make up the mind and the world. (Or, to make the metaphor even more Hegelian, the Universe makes up the Universe--with minds--collectively--playing a special role in the making up.)"
preview | full record— Putnam, Hilary (b. 1926)
Date: 1984
"That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"I suppose people--certainly imaginative writers--who consciously exploit their own obsessions do so in part because those obsessions lie like stepping-stones in front of them, and their feet are drawn towards them."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable points, and more than equal to any physical rearrangement of the brain's functions."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: September 29, 1985
"My father used to say, 'Your mind is like a parachute. If it won't open when you need it, it is not much good.' I have an open mind."
preview | full record— Wilson, George C.
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: 1993
"Your mind, I tell graduates, is a lot like a parachute--it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it."
preview | full record— Crowe, William J. (1925-2007)
Date: May 23, 1993
"'Your mind,' Admiral Crowe likes to tell university students, 'is a lot like a parachute -- it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it.'"
preview | full record— Rosenberg, David Alan
Date: 1997
"That the self is an immediate unity with itself, a Moebius-like entity, was an insight taken in several directions by thinkers after Fichte"
preview | full record— Peters, John Durham
Date: 1998
"Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a mob wife, prostitute, and femme with a steel-trap mind, and Gina Gershon plays Corky, Violet's ex-con lover."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)