Date: July, 1962; November 22, 1962; 1973
"Some of my characters are, no doubt, pretty beastly, but I really don't care, they are outside my inner self like the mournful monsters of a cathedral façade--demons placed there merely to show that they have been booted out."
preview | full record— Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
Date: August, 1963
"But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty mill...
preview | full record— King, Martin Luther [Michael] (1929-1968)
Date: 1964
"Its productivity and efficiency, its capacity to increase and spread comforts, to turn waste into need, and destruction into construction, the extent to which this civilization transforms the object world into an extension of man's mind and body makes the very notion of alienation questionable. ...
preview | full record— Marcuse, Herbert (1898-1979)
Date: 1968
"There is a little man who lives in one's head. The little man keeps a library."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
In one's head is "a button on a control panel. The button is marked 'take the left free end of a shoelace in the left hand'. When depressed, it activates a series of wheels, cogs, levers, and hydraulic mechanisms."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"We might thus consider expanding the population in one's head to include subordinate little men who superintend the execution of the 'elementary' behaviors involved in complex sequences like grasping a shoelace."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"The shop foreman [in one's head] goes about supervising that activity in a way that is, in essence, a microcosm of supervising tying one's shoe. Indeed the shop foreman might be imagined to superintend a detail of wage slaves, whose functions include: searching inputs for traces of shoelace, fle...
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"Rather the little man stands as a representative pro tem for psychological faculties which mediate the integration of shoe-tying behavior by applying information about how shoes are tied."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"This is, I think, perfectly correct. The little man [in one's head], as we might say, has in his library pamphlets entitled 'Tying One's Shoes', 'Speaking Latin', and 'Typing 'Afghanistan"', but no pamphlet entitled 'Being Intelligent' or 'Speaking Latin Fluently' or 'Typing "Afghanistan" with P...
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1969-70
"In this stock exchange within our minds 'modern' has been falling, 'bourgeois' has been rising: a small trend, but probably not without some significance."
preview | full record— Lukacs, John (b. 1924)